Chapter
2
- 2:1
- 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:
- 2:2
- 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:
- 2:3
- And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and
will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
- 2:4
- 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:
- 2:5
- But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
palaces of Jerusalem.
- 2:6
- 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;
- 2:7
- 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:
- 2:8
- 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.
- 2:9
- 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.
- 2:10
- 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.
- 2:11
- 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.
- 2:12
- But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
- 2:13
- Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that
is full of sheaves.
- 2:14
- Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the
strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty
deliver himself:
- 2:15
- 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.
- 2:16
- And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away
naked in that day, saith the LORD.
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