| 1 | Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: |
| 2 | but I will send a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; |
| 3 | and I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will kill all the princes of it with him, says Yahweh. |
| 4 | Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk: |
| 5 | but I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. |
| 6 | Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes |
| 7 | those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the humble: and a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name: |
| 8 | and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined. |
| 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. |
| 10 | Also I 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 | I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, you children of Israel? says Yahweh. |
| 12 | But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Don't prophesy. |
| 13 | Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves. |
| 14 | Flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; |
| 15 | neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself; |
| 16 | and he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says Yahweh. |