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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Moab because they cremated the bones of the king of Edom, burning them to lime. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So I will send down fire upon Moab, and it will devour the fortified citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in the uproar of battle, with a war cry and with the trumpeting of the ram's horn. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I will execute their rulers among them, killing all of their officials as well," says the LORD. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Judah —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because they rejected the Law of the LORD and did not keep his statutes. Their own lies made them wander off, following along the same path their ancestors walked. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So I will send down fire upon Judah, and it will devour the fortified citadels of Jerusalem." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Israel —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because they sold the righteous for money, and the poor for sandals, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7moving quickly to rub the face of the needy in the dirt. Corrupting the ways of the humble, a man and his father go to the same woman, deliberately defiling my holy name. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They lay down beside every altar, on garments pledged as collateral, drinking wine paid for through fines imposed by the temple of their gods. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them, though their height seemed like a cedar, though their strength seemed like an oak, but whose fruit I destroyed from above and the roots from beneath. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Furthermore, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, leading you in the wilderness for 40 years, to take possession of the land of the Amorites. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I also raised up your sons to be prophets, and from your young men I raised up Nazirites. Is this not true, people of Israel?" declares the LORD. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"But you forced the Nazirites to drink wine, and commanded the prophets, 'You are not to prophesy!' |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Oh, how I am burdened down with you, as a wagon is overloaded with harvested grain! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So the swift runner will not escape, the valiant will not fortify his strength, and the mighty warrior will not save his life. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The skilled archer will not be able to stand, the swift runner will not survive, and the mounted rider will not preserve his own life. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Even the bravest of elite troops will run away naked at that time," declares the LORD. |
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