Chapter 2
- 2:1
- Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
- 2:2
- But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab
shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
- 2:3
- And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes
thereof with him, saith the LORD.
- 2:4
- Thus 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:
- 2:5
- But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
- 2:6
- Thus 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;
- 2:7
- That 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:
- 2:8
- And 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.
- 2:9
- Yet 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.
- 2:10
- Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the
wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
- 2:11
- And 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.
- 2:12
- But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy
not.
- 2:13
- Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
- 2:14
- Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen
his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
- 2:15
- Neither 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.
- 2:16
- And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the
LORD.