2:1 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.
2:2 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.
2:3 I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him, says the Lord.
2:4 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.
2:5 So I will send fire against Judah, and it will devour the fortresses of Jerusalem.
2:6 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.
2:7 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.
2:8 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.
2:9 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.
2:10 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.
2:11 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.
2:12 But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, “Do not prophesy.”
2:13 Indeed I will slow you down, as a wagon is slowed that is full of sheaves.
2:14 Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain his strength, nor will the warrior save his life.
2:15 The bowman will not stand firm, the swift-footed will not escape, nor will the horseman save his life.
2:16 He that is courageous among the warriors will flee away naked on that day, says the Lord.
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