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| Chapter 2
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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: |
2 | But I will send a fire upon Moab, and
it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with
tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: |
3 |
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay
all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. |
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: |
5 |
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem. |
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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| 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: |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
12 | But ye gave the Nazarites wine to
drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. |
13 | Behold, I am pressed under you, as a
cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. |
14 |
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not
strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: |
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. |
16 | And he that is courageous among the
mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD. |