12And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.


In Context

9 Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

10 It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?

12 And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

13 Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.

14 And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.

Amos 2:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:12"But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:12But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:12But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12|But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'Don't prophesy!'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12And ye cause the Nazarites to drink wine, And on the prophets ye have laid a charge, Saying, 'Do not prophecy!'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.