Amos · Chapter 2

Amos 2:16

¹Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:²But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:³And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.⁴Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:⁵But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.⁶Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;⁷That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:⁸And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.⁹Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.¹⁰Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.¹¹And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.¹²But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.¹³Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.¹⁴Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:¹⁵Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.¹⁶And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

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16	And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.	Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.	and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
and [the] [person] strong	וְאַמִּ֥יץ	ve-'a-MITZ	H0533	strong אַמִּיץ (am.mits) strong, mighty
of heart his	לִבּ֖וֹ	li-BO	H3820A	mind בָּל (bal) mind, heart Aramaic of lev (לֵב "heart" H3820A)
among the warriors	בַּגִּבּוֹרִ֑ים	ba-gi-bo-RIM	H1368	mighty man גִּבּוֹר (gib.bor) adj 1) strong, mighty n m 2) strong man, brave man, mighty man
naked	עָר֛וֹם	a-ROM	H6174	naked עָרוֹם (a.rom) naked, bare
he will flee	יָנ֥וּס	ya-NUS	H5127	to flee נוּד (nud) (P'al) to flee Aramaic of nus (נוּס "to flee" H5127)
on the day	בַּיּוֹם־	bai-yom-	H3117G	day יוֹם (yom) : day/when/time/period 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow
the that	הַה֖וּא	ha-HU'	H1931	he/she/it הוּא (hu) pron 3p s 1) he, she, it 1a) himself (with emphasis) 1b) resuming subj with emphasis 1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate) 1d) (anticipating subj) 1e) (emphasising predicate) 1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron 2) that (with article)
[the] utterance of	נְאֻם־	ne-'um-	H5002	utterance נְאֻם (ne.um) 1) (Qal) utterance, declaration (of prophet) 1a) utterance, declaration, revelation (of prophet in ecstatic state) 1b) utterance, declaration (elsewhere always preceding divine name)
Yahweh	יְהוָֽה׃ פ	YAH-weh	H3068G	Lord אֲדֹנָי (a.do.nai) Lord - a title, spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of reverence Another name of ye.ho.vah (יהוה "LORD" H3068G)

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Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.