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2:1  Thus says Adonai: For three crimes of Moab even for four, I will not relent. For he burned the bones of Edom’s king to lime,
2:2  So I will send fire upon Moab— it will devour Kerioth’s citadels. Moab will die in an uproar, with a shout of alarm and the sound of the shofar.
2:3  I will cut off the ruler from her midst, and slay all her princes with him. Thus Adonai has said. As for Judah and Israel
2:4  Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.
2:5  So I will send fire upon Judah— it will devour Jerusalem’s citadels.”
2:6  Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Israel even for four, I will not relent. For they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes.
2:7  They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and thwart the way of the humble. A man and his father go to the same girl, to profane My holy Name.
2:8  Upon garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and drink wine confiscated as fines in the house of their gods.
2:9  “I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like cedars and as strong as oaks— yes, I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.
2:10  It was I also who brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to possess the Amorite’s land.
2:11  I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not so, Bnei Yisrael?” declares Adonai.
2:12  “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy.’
2:13  Behold! I will cause a tottering beneath you as a cart totters when full of sheaves.
2:14  Then flight will fail for the swift. The mighty will not strengthen his power, The warrior will not save his life.
2:15  The archer will not stand, the fleet-footed will not escape, the horseman will not save himself.
2:16  The valiant among the warriors will flee naked in that day.” declares Adonai.