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:
02 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:
03 And I will cut off the judge from the midst
thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof
with him, saith the Lord.
04 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:
05 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it
shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
06 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;
07 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:
08 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.
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09 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and
commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is
pressed that is full of sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the
swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his
force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15 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.
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty
shall flee away naked in that day, saith the
Lord.
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