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Amos 2

16 aligned verses; 14 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
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:
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 ;
But 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 :
and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah .
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD .
Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah , and have not kept his statutes , and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk :
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 :
but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes -
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 ;
they 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 go unto the ` same ' maiden , to profane my holy name:
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:
and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge ; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined .
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.
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.
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.
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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.
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites . Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah .
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 .
But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink , and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink ; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Behold, I will press ` you ' in your place , as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
And flight shall perish from the swift ; and the strong shall not strengthen his force ; neither shall the mighty deliver himself ;
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift , and the strong shall not strengthen his force , neither shall the mighty deliver himself :
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 ;
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 .
and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah .
And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD .

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