Chapter 2

  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away his punishment: 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 of it, and will slay all its princes with him, saith the LORD.  

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  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away their punishment: because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked:  

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  But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.  

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  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away their punishment: because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;  

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  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 to the same maid, to profane my holy name:  

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  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.  

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  Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose hight was like the hight 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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  Also I brought you from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.  

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  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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  But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.  

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  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.  

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