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# Amos 2

Amos 2 is chapter 2 of 9 in the Book of Amos. Here are all 16 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The judgments with which God threatens Moab, Juda, and Israel for their sins, and their ingratitude.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Amos 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Thus says the Lord: For three wicked deeds of Moab, and for four, I will not convert him, in so far as he has burned the bones of the king of Idumea, all the way to ashes.
2. And I will send a fire onto Moab, and it will devour the buildings of Kerioth. And Moab will die with a noise, with the blare of a trumpet.
3. And I will destroy the judge in their midst, and I will execute all his leaders with him, says the Lord.
4. Thus says the Lord: For three wicked deeds of Judah, and for four, I will not convert him, in so far as he has rejected the law of the Lord and has not kept his commandments. For their idols, which their fathers followed, have deceived them.
5. And I will send a fire onto Judah, and it will devour the buildings of Jerusalem.
6. Thus says the Lord: For three wicked deeds of Israel, and for four, I will not convert him, in so far as he has sold the just for silver and the poor for shoes.
7. They grind the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth, and they divert the way of the humble. And the son, as well as his father, have gone to the same girl, so that they outrage my holy name.
8. And they have lain on garments taken in pledge next to every altar. And they drank the wine of the damned in the house of their God.
9. Yet I exterminated the Amorites before their face, whose height was like the height of cedars, and whose strength was like the oak. And I crushed his fruit from above and his roots below.
10. It is I who caused you to ascend from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness for forty years, so that you might possess the land of the Amorite.
11. And I stirred up prophets from your sons, and Nazirites from your young men. Is it not so, sons of Israel, says the Lord?
12. Yet you would offer wine to the Nazirites, and you would command the prophets, saying: “Do not prophesy.”
13. Behold, I will creak under you, just as a wagon creaks that is laden with hay.
14. And flight will perish from the swift, and the strong will not maintain his strength, and the healthy will not save his life.
15. And one holding the bow will not stand firm, and the swift of foot will not be saved, and the rider on the horse will not save his life.
16. And the stout of heart among the strong will flee away naked in that day, says the Lord.

## Amos 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Hæc dicit Dominus: Super tribus sceleribus Moab, et super quatuor non convertam eum, eo quod incenderit ossa regis Idumææ usque ad cinerem.
2. Et mittam ignem in Moab, et devorabit ædes Carioth: et morietur in sonitu Moab, in clangore tubæ.
3. Et disperdam judicem de medio ejus, et omnes principes ejus interficiam cum eo, dicit Dominus.
4. Hæc dicit Dominus: Super tribus sceleribus Juda, et super quatuor non convertam eum, eo quod abjecerit legem Domini et mandata ejus non custodierit: deceperant enim eos idola sua, post quæ abierant patres eorum.
5. Et mittam ignem in Juda, et devorabit ædes Jerusalem.
6. Hæc dicit Dominus: Super tribus sceleribus Israël, et super quatuor non convertam eum, pro eo quod vendiderit pro argento justum, et pauperem pro calceamentis.
7. Qui conterunt super pulverem terræ capita pauperum, et viam humilium declinant: et filius ac pater ejus ierunt ad puellam, ut violarent nomen sanctum meum.
8. Et super vestimentis pignoratis accubuerunt juxta omne altare, et vinum damnatorum bibebant in domo Dei sui.
9. Ego autem exterminavi Amorrhæum a facie eorum, cujus altitudo, cedrorum altitudo ejus, et fortis ipse quasi quercus; et contrivi fructum ejus desuper, et radices ejus subter.
10. Ego sum qui ascendere vos feci de terra Ægypti, et duxi vos in deserto quadraginta annis, ut possideretis terram Amorrhæi.
11. Et suscitavi de filiis vestris in prophetas, et de juvenibus vestris nazaræos. Numquid non ita est, filii Israël? dicit Dominus.
12. Et propinabitis nazaræis vinum, et prophetis mandabitis, dicentes: Ne prophetetis.
13. Ecce ego stridebo subter vos, sicut stridet plaustrum onustum fœno.
14. Et peribit fuga a veloce, et fortis non obtinebit virtutem suam, et robustus non salvabit animam suam:
15. et tenens arcum non stabit, et velox pedibus suis non salvabitur, et ascensor equi non salvabit animam suam:
16. et robustus corde inter fortes nudus fugiet in illa die, dicit Dominus.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 13: Unable to bear any longer the enormous load of your sins, etc. The spirit of God, as St. Jerome takes notice, accommodates himself to the education of the prophet and inspires him with comparisons taken from country affairs.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).