Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: (2:1)

But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, [and] with the sound of the trumpet: (2:2)

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord (2:3)

Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: (2:4)

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem (2:5)

Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; (2:6)

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 in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name: (2:7)

And they lay [themselves] down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned [in] the house of their god (2:8)

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 (2:9)

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite (2:10)

And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord (2:11)

But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not (2:12)

Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves (2:13)

Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: (2:14)

Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and [he that is] swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself (2:15)

And [he that is] courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord (2:16)

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