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1Thus says the Lord:
⚓“For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he ⚓burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
2But I will send a fire upon Moab,
And it shall devour the palaces of ⚓Kerioth;
Moab shall die with tumult,
With shouting and trumpet sound.
3And I will cut off ⚓the judge from its midst,
And slay all its princes with him,”
Says the Lord.
Judgment on Judah
4Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of ⚓Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
⚓Because they have despised the law of the Lord,
And have not kept His commandments.
⚓Their lies lead them astray,
Lies⚓which their fathers followed.
5⚓But I will send a fire upon Judah,
And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
Judgment on Israel
6Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of ⚓Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because ⚓they sell the righteous for silver,
And the ⚓poor for a pair of sandals.
7They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
And ⚓pervert the way of the humble.
⚓A man and his father go in to the same girl,
⚓To defile My holy name.
8They lie down ⚓by every altar on clothes ⚓taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
9“Yet it was I who destroyed the ⚓Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the ⚓height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I ⚓destroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.
10Also it was⚓I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And ⚓led you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.
11I raised up some of your sons as ⚓prophets,
And some of your young men as ⚓Nazirites.
Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”
Says the Lord.
12“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
And commanded the prophets ⚓saying,
‘Do not prophesy!’
13“Behold,⚓ I am weighed down by you,
As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.
14⚓Therefore flight shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall not strengthen his power,
⚓Nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
15He shall not stand who handles the bow,
The swift of foot shall not escape,
Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
16The most courageous men of might
Shall flee naked in that day,”
Says the Lord.