| 1: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned
the bones of the king of Edom into lime: |
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| 2: But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the
palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and
with the sound of the trumpet: |
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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will
slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. |
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| 4: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have
despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and
their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have
walked: |
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| 5: But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
palaces of Jerusalem. |
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| 6: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold
the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; |
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| 7: That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in
unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: |
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| 8: And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by
every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of
their god. |
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| 9: Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like
the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed
his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. |
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| 10: Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you
forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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| 11: And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young
men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith
the LORD. |
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| 12: But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
prophets, saying, Prophesy not. |
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| 13: Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is
full of sheaves. |
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| 14: Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the
strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
himself: |
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| 15: Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is
swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth
the horse deliver himself. |
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| 16: And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away
naked in that day, saith the LORD. |
