[1] These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for
four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the
king of Edom burned to dust. [2] And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up
the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and
outcries and the sound of the horn: [3] And I will have the judge cut off
from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says
the Lord. [4] These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah,
and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given
up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways,
in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way. [5]
And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.
[6] These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for
four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the
upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes; [7]
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of
the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting
shame on my holy name: [8] By every altar they are stretched on clothing
taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god
the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing. [9] Though I sent
destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and
strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots
from under the earth. [10] And I took you up out of the land of Egypt,
guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for
your heritage the land of the Amorite. [11] And some of your sons I made
prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not
even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord. [12] But to those who were
separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets
no longer. [13] See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart
full of grain. [14] And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and
the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get
away safely: [15] And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is
quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his
life. [16] And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in
flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.
