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[1]Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn back from punishing it, for he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
[2]But I will send a fire against Moab, which shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with uproar, with a war cry, and with the sound of the shofar.
[3]And I will cut off the judge in its midst, and will kill all its rulers with him, says Jehovah.
[4]Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from punishing it; for they despised the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.
[5]And I will send a fire against Judah, which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
[6]Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn back from punishing it, for they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.
[7]They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless, and thrust aside the way of the afflicted. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, in order to profane My holy name.
[8]And they lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and drink the wine of those being punished 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 as 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 in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.
[11]And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is this not even so, O sons of Israel? declares Jehovah.
[12]But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.
[13]Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart full of sheaves is pressed.
[14]Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his power, nor shall the mighty deliver his soul,
[15]and he who handles the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, nor shall the one riding a horse deliver his soul.
[16]And the strong of heart among the mighty shall flee naked in that day, declares Jehovah.
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