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Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn back his punishment, for he burned up 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 Kerioth; and Moab shall die with an uproar, with shouting, and with the voice of the shophar;
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and I will cut off the judge from the midst, and will kill all the princes with him, says Jehovah.
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Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back their punishment, on account of their rejecting the law of Jehovah; and they have not kept His statutes, and their lies caused them to go astray, 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 says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn back their punishment, for they sold the just for silver, and the needy for the sake of a pair of shoes,
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panting over the dust of the earth on the head of the poor; and they distort the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in to the same damsel, in order to profane the name of My holiness;
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and they stretch out on pledged garments beside every altar, and they drink the wine of those confined in the house of their god.
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And I blotted out the Amorite from before them, whose loftiness was as the loftiness of the cedars, and he was secure as the oaks; but I blotted out his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and caused you to go forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazarites. And yes, is this not so, O ye sons of Israel, says Jehovah?
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But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Behold, I am pressed down under you, as a cart is pressed down that is full of sheaves.
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And fleeing shall perish from the swift, and the firm shall not encourage his power, and the hero shall not cause his soul to escape;
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neither shall he stand who lays hold of the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not escape; neither shall he who rides the horse cause his soul to escape.
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And he who is courageous of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says Jehovah.
