1Thus saith the Lord;
For three transgressions of Moab,
And for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
Because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

2But I will send a fire upon Moab,
And it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth:
And Moab shall die with tumult,
With shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof,
And will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

4Thus saith the Lord;
For three transgressions of Judah,
And for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
Because they have despised the law of the Lord,
And have not kept his commandments,
And their lies caused them to err,
After the which their fathers have walked:

5But I will send a fire upon Judah,
And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

6Thus saith the Lord;
For three transgressions of Israel,
And for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
Because they sold the righteous for silver,
And the poor for a pair of shoes;

7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
And turn aside the way of the meek:
And a man and his father will go in unto the same maid,
To profane my holy name:

8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar,
And they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the height of the cedars,
And he was strong as the oaks;
Yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
And his roots from beneath.

10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And led you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.

11And I raised up of your sons for prophets,
And of your young men for Nazarites.
Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.

12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink;
And commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

13Behold, I am pressed under you,
As a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift,
And the strong shall not strengthen his force,
Neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

15Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow;
And he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself:
Neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

16And he that is courageous among the mighty
Shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.