The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Moaba

for three crimes, even four,

because he burned the bones

of the king of Edom to lime.b

2 Therefore, I will send fire against Moab,

and it will consume the citadels of Kerioth.c

Moab will die with a tumult,d

with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.

3 I will cut off the judgee from the land

and kill all its officialsf with him.

The Lord has spoken.

JUDGMENT ON JUDAH

4 The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judahg

for three crimes, even four,

because they have rejected the instruction of the Lordh

and have not kept his statutes.i

The liesj that their ancestors followedk

have led them astray.

5 Therefore, I will send firel against Judah,

and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL

6 The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Israelm

for three crimes, even four,

because they sell a righteous person for silver

and a needy person for a pair of sandals.n

7 They trample the heads of the pooro

on the dust of the ground

and obstruct the path of the needy.p

A man and his father have sexual relations

with the same girl,q

profaning my holy name.r

8 They stretch out beside every altars

on garments taken as collateral,t

and in the house of their God

they drink wine obtained through fines.u

9 Yet I destroyed the Amoritev as Israel advanced;

his heightw was like the cedars,

and he was as sturdy as the oaks;

I destroyed his fruitx above and his roots beneath.

10 And I brought you from the land of Egypty

and led you forty years in the wildernessz

in order to possess the land of the Amorite.aa

11 I raised up some of your sons as prophetsab

and some of your young men as Nazirites.ac

Is this not the case, Israelites?

This is the Lord’s declaration.

12 But you made the Nazirites drink wine

and commanded the prophets,

“Do not prophesy.”ad

13 Look, I am about to crushA you in your placeae

as a wagon crushes when full of grain.

14 Escape will fail the swift,af

the strong one will not maintain his strength,ag

and the warrior will not save his life.

15 The archer will not stand his ground,ah

the one who is swift of foot

will not save himself,

and the one riding a horse will not save his life.ai

16 Even the most courageous of the warriors

will flee naked on that dayaj—

this is the Lord’s declaration.