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Chapter 2 |
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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: |
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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: |
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| And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and
will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. |
| 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: |
| 5 | But I will send a fire upon
Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. |
| 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; |
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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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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12 | But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and
commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. |
| 13 | Behold, I am
pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. |
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not
strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: |
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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. |
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| And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee
away naked in that day, saith the LORD. |
