¹ Thus says the Lord :

“For three transgressions of Moab,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because he burned to lime

the bones of the king of Edom.

² So I will send a fire upon Moab,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,

and Moab shall die amid uproar,

amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;

³ I will cut off the ruler from its midst,

and will kill all its princes with him,”

says the Lord .

Judgment on Judah

⁴ Thus says the Lord :

“For three transgressions of Judah,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they have rejected the law of the Lord ,

and have not kept his statutes,

but their lies have led them astray,

those after which their fathers walked.

⁵ So I will send a fire upon Judah,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

Judgment on Israel

⁶ Thus says the Lord :

“For three transgressions of Israel,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they sell the righteous for silver,

and the needy for a pair of sandals—

⁷ those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth

and turn aside the way of the afflicted;

a man and his father go in to the same girl,

so that my holy name is profaned;

⁸ they lay themselves down beside every altar

on garments taken in pledge,

and in the house of their God they drink

the wine of those who have been fined.

⁹ “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,

whose height was like the height of the cedars

and who was as strong as the oaks;

I destroyed his fruit above

and his roots beneath.

¹⁰ Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt

and led you forty years in the wilderness,

to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹ And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,

and some of your young men for Nazirites.

Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”

declares the Lord .

¹² “But you made the Nazirites drink wine,

and commanded the prophets,

saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’

¹³ “Behold, I will press you down in your place,

as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

¹⁴ Flight shall perish from the swift,

and the strong shall not retain his strength,

nor shall the mighty save his life;

¹⁵ he who handles the bow shall not stand,

and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself,

nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;

¹⁶ and he who is stout of heart among the mighty

shall flee away naked in that day,”

declares the Lord .