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Judgment on Judah and Israel

¹ Thus says the LORD,

"For three transgressions of ^(C1)Moab and for four
I will not ^(F1)revoke its punishment,
Because he ^(C2)burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

² "So I will send fire upon Moab
And it will consume the citadels of ^(C1)Kerioth;
And Moab will die amid ^(C2)tumult,
With ^(F1)war cries and the sound of a trumpet.

³ "I will also cut off the ^(F1)(C1)judge from her midst
And slay all her ^(C2)princes with him," says the LORD.

⁴ Thus says the LORD,
"For three transgressions of ^(C1)Judah and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they ^(C2)rejected the law of the LORD
And have not kept His statutes;
Their ^(F1)(C3)lies also have led them astray,
Those after which their ^(C4)fathers walked.

⁵ "So I will ^(C1)send fire upon Judah
And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."

⁶ Thus says the LORD,
"For three transgressions of ^(C1)Israel and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they ^(C2)sell the righteous for money
And the needy for a pair of sandals.

⁷ "These who ^(F1)pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the ^(C1)helpless
Also ^(C2)turn aside the way of the humble;
And a ^(C3)man and his father ^(F2)resort to the same ^(F3)girl
In order to profane My holy name.

⁸ "On garments ^(C1)taken as pledges they stretch out beside ^(C2)every altar,
And in the house of their God they ^(C3)drink the wine of those who have been fined.

⁹ "Yet it was I who destroyed the ^(C1)Amorite before them,
^(F1)Though his ^(C2)height was like the height of cedars
And he was strong as the oaks;
I even destroyed his ^(C3)fruit above and his root below.

¹⁰ "It was I who ^(C1)brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And I led you in the wilderness ^(C2)forty years
^(F1)That you might take possession of the land of the ^(C3)Amorite.

¹¹ "Then I ^(C1)raised up some of your sons to be prophets
And some of your young men to be ^(C2)Nazirites.
Is this not so, O sons of Israel?" declares the LORD.

¹² "But you made the Nazirites drink wine,
And you commanded the prophets saying, 'You ^(C1)shall not prophesy!'

¹³ "Behold, I am ^(F1)(C1)weighted down beneath you
As a wagon ^(F2)is weighted down when filled with sheaves.

¹⁴ "^(F1)(C1)Flight will perish from the swift,
And the stalwart will not strengthen his power,
Nor the ^(C2)mighty man save his ^(F2)life.

¹⁵ "He who ^(C1)grasps the bow will not stand his ground,
The swift of foot will not escape,
Nor will he who rides the ^(C2)horse save his ^(F1)life.

¹⁶ "Even the ^(F1)bravest among the warriors will ^(C1)flee naked in that day," declares the LORD.