¹This is what the Lord says:

“For three transgressions of Moab,

And for four,

I will not avert it,

Because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

²And I will send fire to Moab,

Which will consume the palaces of Kerioth,

And Moab will die in a tumult,

In an alarm sound

– At the sound of the ramshorn.

³And I will cut off the judge from their midst,

And I will kill all their princes with him,

Says the Lord.”

⁴This is what the Lord says:

“For three transgressions of Judah,

And for four,

I will not avert it,

Because of them rejecting the law of the Lord,

When they did not keep his statutes,

And their lies led them astray

– Lies which their fathers walked in.

⁵And I will send fire to Judah,

Which will consume the palaces of Jerusalem.”

⁶This is what the Lord says:

“For three transgressions of Israel,

And for four,

I will not avert it,

Because they sold the righteous for silver,

And the poor in return for a pair of sandals.

⁷They crush the head of the poor in the dust of the earth,

And they pervert the way of the meek,

And a man and his father go to a girl

To profane my holy name.

⁸And they recline in clothes taken in pledge,

Next to every altar,

And they drink confiscated wine

In the house of their God.

⁹Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,

Whose height was as the height of cedars,

And who was as strong as oak trees.

And I destroyed his fruit above,

And his roots below the ground.

¹⁰And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,

And I led you in the desert for forty years,

To inherit the land of the Amorite.

¹¹And I raised up some of your sons to be prophets,

And some of your youths to be Nazarites.

Is this not so,

O sons of Israel?

Says the Lord,

¹²But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink,

And you commanded the prophets, saying,

‘Do not prophesy.’

¹³Look, I am burdened by you,

As a cart full of sheaves is burdened.

¹⁴So refuge will be unavailable to the swift,

And the strong will not be able to build up his force,

And the warrior will not be able to save his life.

¹⁵And the archer will not stand,

And he who is swift on his feet will not escape,

And he who rides on a horse will not save his life.

¹⁶And he who is courageous among warriors

Will flee naked on that day,

Says the Lord.”