II. Thus saith the Lord;

aFor three transgressions of bMoab,

aAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

cBecause he burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

2  dBut I will send a fire upon Moab,

dAnd it shall devour the palaces of eKerioth:

And Moab shall die with ftumult,

gWith shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

3  And I will cut off hthe judge from the midst thereof,

And will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

4  Thus saith the Lord;

aFor three transgressions of Judah,

aAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

iBecause they have despised the law of the Lord,

And ihave not kept his commandments,

And ktheir lies caused them to err,

lAfter the which their fathers have walked:

5  dBut mI will send a fire upon Judah,

dAnd mit shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

6  Thus saith the Lord;

aFor three transgressions of Israel,

aAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

Because nthey sold the righteous ofor silver,

oAnd the poor for a pair of shoes;

7  pThat pant after qthe dust of the earth on the head of the poor,

And rturn aside the way of the meek:

And sa man and his father will go in unto the same * maid,

tTo profane my holy name:

8  And they lay themselves down upon uclothes laid to pledge vby every altar,

And they drink the wine of * wthe condemned vin the house of their god.

9  Yet xdestroyed I the Amorite before them,

yWhose height was like the height of the cedars,

And he was strong as yythe oaks;

Yet zI destroyed his fruit from above,

And zhis roots from beneath.

10  Also aI brought you up from the land of Egypt,

And bled you forty years through the wilderness,

cTo possess the land of the Amorite.

11  And I raised up of your sons for prophets,

And of your young men for dNazarites.

Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.

12  But eye gave the Nazarites wine to drink;

And commanded the prophets, fsaying, Prophesy not.

13  Behold, * hI am pressed under you,

As a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

14  Therefore ithe flight shall perish from jkthe swift,

And jlthe strong shall not strengthen his force,

mNeither shall the mighty deliver * himself:

15  Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow;

And he that is knswift of foot shall not deliver himself:

joNeither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

16  And he that is * courageous among pthe mighty

Shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.