Amos 2:16
Good News Translation
On that day even the bravest soldiers will drop their weapons and run." The LORD has spoken.

New Revised Standard Version
and those who are stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
You may be brave and strong, but you will run away, stripped naked. I, the LORD, have spoken!

New American Bible
And the most stouthearted of warriors shall flee naked on that day— oracle of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

courageous.

Jeremiah 48:41 Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.

flee.

Judges 4:17 But Sisara fleeing, came to the tent of Jahel, the wife of Haber, the Cinite, for there was peace between Jabin, the king of Asor, and the house of Haber, the Cinite.

2 Kings 7:8-20 So when these lepers were come to the beginning of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank: and they took from thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went, and hid it: and they came again, and went into another tent, and carried from thence in like manner, and hid it. . . .

Mark 14:52 But he, casting off the linen cloth, fled from them naked.

Context
Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel
15And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life. 16And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
Cross References
Judges 4:17
But Sisara fleeing, came to the tent of Jahel, the wife of Haber, the Cinite, for there was peace between Jabin, the king of Asor, and the house of Haber, the Cinite.

Psalm 76:5
All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

Amos 2:15
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