 1 Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away from it. Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime. 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab will die with great noise, with shouting, with the sound of a trumpet. 3 I will cut off the judge from its midst, and will kill all its rulers with him, says the Lord. 4 Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away from it. Because they have despised the laws of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray. 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 6 Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away from it. Because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals; 7 panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to the same woman, to defile my holy name. 8 They will stretch beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. 9 Yet I destroyed 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 below. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you 40 years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazarites from your young men. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord. 12 But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets saying, Do not prophesy. 13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart full of sheaves is pressed. 14 Refuge will perish from the swift, and the strong will not strengthen his power, nor will the mighty deliver his life; 15 nor will he who handles the bow stand. And the swift footed will not save. And the horse rider will not save his life. 16 The stout hearted among the mighty will flee away naked in that day, says the Lord.
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