1 Thus saith theLord: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
2 but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
3 and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith theLord.
4 Thus saith theLord: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of theLord, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after the which their fathers did walk:
5 but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
6 Thus saith theLord: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes:
7 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 unto thesamemaid, to profane my holy name:
8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
9 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 out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in 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 Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith theLord.
12 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I will pressyouin your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
14 And 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 deliverhimself: 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 theLord.