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Chapter 2
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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: |
3
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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. |
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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: |
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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour
the palaces of Jerusalem. |
6
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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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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: |
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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 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
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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. |
11
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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. |
12
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded
the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. |
13
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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. |
