1. Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the bones of the king of Idumea to lime.
2. But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.
3. And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, saith the Lord.
4. Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Juda, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.
5. And I will send a fire on Juda, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.
6. Thus saith the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,
7. [Lit. «the things that tread,’ etc.; One reading is twn patountwn] wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the [Or, afflicted] lowly: and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.
8. And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk [Gr. wine of false accusations] wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.
9. Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10. And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.
11. And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord.
12. But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13. Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.
14. And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:
15. and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.
16. And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, saith the Lord.