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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3 | 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.
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