On Moab
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📚Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Moab✭,
and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
because he burned✭ the bones
of the king of Edom to lime.
2 📚So I will send a fire on Moab,
and it will devour the palaces of Kirioth✭;
and Moab will die amid tumult
and shouting and the sound
of the trumpet.
3 📚And I will cut off✭ the judge
from its midst,
and will slay all its princes
with him”, says the LORD.
Judgment on Judah
4 📚✭Thus says the LORD:
“For three transgressions
of Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
because they have despised the law✭
of the LORD,
and have not kept his commandments,
and their lies led them astray,
the lies ✭ their fathers✭
followed.
5 📚So I will send a fire✭ on Judah,
and it will devour the palaces
of Jerusalem”.
Judgment on the northern kingdom of Israel
6 📚✭Thus says the LORD:
“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
because they sold the righteous
for silver,
and the poor for a pair of sandals.
7 📚They pant after the dust of the earth
that is on the head of the poor,
and turn aside the way of the humble.
And a man and his father go in to the
same girl✭,
thus profaning my holy name✭.
8 📚And they lie down beside every altar✭
on clothes taken in pledge✭,
and in the house of their god
they drink the wine of those
who have been condemned.
9 📚Yet it was I who
destroyed the Amorite✭ before them,
whose height was like the height
of the cedars,
and whose strength was
like the oaks.
Yet I destroyed his fruit above,
and his roots below.
10 📚“Also it was I who
brought you up from the land of Egypt✭,
and led you forty years through
the desert, to possess the land
of the Amorite.
11 📚And 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.
12 📚✭“But you gave the Nazarites
wine to drink,
and commanded the prophets, saying,
‘Do not prophesy✭’.
13 📚✭“See, I am weighed down by you,
as a cart full of sheaves is
weighed down.
14 📚Therefore flight will perish
from the swift,
and the strong will not strengthen
his power, nor will the mighty
deliver himself,
15 📚Nor will the one who handled
the bow be able to stand;
and the one who is swift
of foot will not escape,
nor will the one who rides a horse
deliver himself.
16 📚And the bravest of the mighty
will run away naked in that day✭”,
says the LORD.