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“For three transgressions of Moab, even four,
I will not turn back from wrath,
because he burned to lime
the bones of the king of Edom.
2 So I will send fire on Moab,
that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.
Moab will die in great tumult,
amid war cries and the sounding of trumpets.
3 I will cut off the ruler from its midst
and kill all its officials with him,”
says the Lord.
4 This is what the Lord says:
“For three transgressions of Judah, even four,
I will not turn back from wrath,
because they have rejected the law of the Lord
and have not kept His statutes.
They have been led astray by the same lies
that their ancestors followed.
5 Therefore I will send fire against Judah,
that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.”
6 This is what the Lord says:
“For three transgressions of Israel, even four,
I will not turn back from wrath,
because they sell the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals.
7 They trample on the heads of the poor
as on the dust of the ground,
and harshly oppress the afflicted.
Father and son use the same girl,
and so profane My holy name.
8 They lie down beside every altar
on garments taken in pledge.
In the house of their God,
they drink wine confiscated as fines.
9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before Israel,
though his height was like the cedars,
and he was as strong as the oaks.
I destroyed his fruit above
and his roots beneath.
10 “It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
and led you forty years in the wilderness
in order to give you the land of the Amorites.
11 I raised up some of your sons as prophets
and some of your young men as Nazirites.
Is this not the case, O people of Israel?”
declares the Lord.
12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine
and commanded the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy’.
13 “Behold, I will crush you in your place,
as the grain in a cart is crushed by a load of sheaves.
14 Flight will escape the swift,
the strong will fail in his strength,
nor will the warrior deliver himself.
15 The archer will not stand his ground,
the one swift of foot will not get away,
and the one riding a horse will not save his life.
16 Even the most courageous warriors
will flee naked on that day,”
declares the Lord.