{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Amos",
 "chapter": 2,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Thus 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:"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Thus 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:"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Thus 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;"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "That 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:"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "And 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Yet 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "And 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Neither 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD."
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}