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¹ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Moab,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;^[a]
because he burned to lime
    the bones of the king of Edom.
² So I will send a fire on Moab,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
    amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
³ I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
    and will kill all its officials with him,
says the Lord.

⁴ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;^[b]
because they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but they have been led astray by the same lies
    after which their ancestors walked.
⁵ So I will send a fire on Judah,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

⁶ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Israel,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;^[c]
because they sell the righteous for silver,
    and the needy for a pair of sandals—
⁷ they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth,
    and push the afflicted out of the way;
father and son go in to the same girl,
    so that my holy name is profaned;
⁸ they lay themselves down beside every altar
    on garments taken in pledge;
and in the house of their God they drink
    wine bought with fines they imposed.

⁹ Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,
    whose height was like the height of cedars,
    and who was as strong as oaks;
I destroyed his fruit above,
    and his roots 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 And I raised up some of your children to be prophets
    and some of your youths to be nazirites.^[d]
    Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?
says the Lord.

¹² But you made the nazirites^[e] drink wine,
    and commanded the prophets,
    saying, "You shall not prophesy."

¹³ So, I will press you down in your place,
    just as a cart presses down
    when it is full of sheaves.^[f]
14 Flight shall perish from the swift,
    and the strong shall not retain their strength,
    nor shall the mighty save their lives;
¹⁵ those who handle the bow shall not stand,
    and those who are swift of foot shall not save themselves,
    nor shall those who ride horses save their lives;
¹⁶ and those who are stout of heart among the mighty
    shall flee away naked in that day,
says the Lord.