[1] Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I
will not turn away the punishment of it; because he burned the bones of the
king of Edom into lime: [2] but I will send a fire on 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 of it, and will kill all the princes of it with him,
says Yahweh. [4] Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Judah, yes,
for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they have
rejected the law of Yahweh, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies
have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk: [5] but I will
send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. [6]
Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will
not turn away the punishment of it; because they have sold the righteous
for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes [7] those who pant after the
dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the
humble: and a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my
holy name: [8] and they lay themselves down beside every altar on 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] I raised up of your
sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even
thus, you children of Israel? says Yahweh. [12] But you gave the Nazirites
wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Don`t prophesy. [13]
Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presses that is full of
sheaves. [14] 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 who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot
shall not deliver [himself]; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver
himself; [16] and he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away
naked in that day, says Yahweh.
