¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three¹ transgressions of Moab², and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because³ he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult⁵, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

⁶And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

Thus saith the LORD; For⁷ three transgressions of Judah⁸, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because⁹ they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their¹⁰ lies caused them to err, after¹¹ the which their fathers have walked:

But I will¹² send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Thus saith¹³ the LORD; For three¹⁴ transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because¹⁵ they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

That pant¹⁶ after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn¹⁷ aside the way of the meek: and a¹⁸ man and his father will go in unto the same maid¹⁹, to profane my holy name:

And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid²⁰ to pledge by²¹ every altar, and they drink²² the wine of the condemned²³ in the house of their god.

¶ Yet destroyed I the²⁴ Amorite before them, whose²⁵ height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed²⁶ his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

¶ Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led²⁸ you forty years through the wilderness, to possess²⁹ the land of the Amorite.

And I raised³⁰ up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites³¹. Is it³² not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

But ye gave³⁴ the Nazarites wine³⁵ to drink; and commanded³⁶ the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

Behold,³⁷ I am pressed³⁸ under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

Therefore the flight³⁹ shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself⁴⁰:

Neither⁴¹ shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself:⁴² neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

And he that is courageous⁴³ among the mighty shall flee⁴⁴ away naked in that day, saith the LORD.