| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"So I will send fire upon Moab And it will consume the citadels of Kerioth; And Moab will die amid tumult, With war cries and the sound of a trumpet. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"I will also cut off the judge from her midst And slay all her princes with him," says the LORD. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the law of the LORD And have not kept His statutes; Their lies also have led them astray, Those after which their fathers walked. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"So I will send fire upon Judah And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for money And the needy for a pair of sandals. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the helpless Also turn aside the way of the humble; And a man and his father resort to the same girl In order to profane My holy name. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"On garments taken as pledges they stretch out beside every altar, And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Though his height was like the height of cedars And he was strong as the oaks; I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And I led you in the wilderness forty years That you might take possession of the land of the Amorite. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets And some of your young men to be Nazirites. Is this not so, O sons of Israel?" declares the LORD. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"But you made the Nazirites drink wine, And you commanded the prophets saying, 'You shall not prophesy!' |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Behold, I am weighted down beneath you As a wagon is weighted down when filled with sheaves. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Flight will perish from the swift, And the stalwart will not strengthen his power, Nor the mighty man save his life. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"He who grasps the bow will not stand his ground, The swift of foot will not escape, Nor will he who rides the horse save his life. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Even the bravest among the warriors will flee naked in that day," declares the LORD. |
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