[1] Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom. [2] So I will send fire against Moab, and it will devour the fortresses of Kerioth; Moab will die in uproar, with a war cry and the alarm of the trumpet. [3] I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him, says the LORD. [4] Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments. The lies which their fathers followed have led them astray. [5] So I will send fire against Judah, and it will devour the fortresses of Jerusalem. [6] Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals. [7] They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the oppressed out of the way. A man and his father go in to the same woman, profaning My holy name. [8] They recline by every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink the wine from those who have been fined. [9] Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars. He was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below. [10] It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. [11] I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, O children of Israel? says the LORD. [12] But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, "Do not prophesy." [13] Indeed I will slow you down, as a wagon is slowed that is full of sheaves. [14] Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain his strength, nor will the warrior save his life. [15] The bowman will not stand firm, the swift-footed will not escape, nor will the horseman save his life. [16] He that is courageous among the warriors will flee away naked on that day, says the LORD.
