^2:1 Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime. ^2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth and Moab will die with uproar, with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet. ^2:3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it and will kill all the rulers of it with him, says Jehovah.

    ^2:4 Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah and have not kept his statutes and their lies have made them go-astray, according to which their fathers walked. ^2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

    ^2:6 Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver and a needy man for a pair of shoes–^2:7 those who 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 go to the same maiden, to profane my holy name. ^2:8 And they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge. And in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

    ^2:9 Yet I destroyed 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 out of the land of Egypt and led you^* forty years in 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 Nazirites.

    Is it not even thus, O you^* sons of Israel? says Jehovah. ^2:12 But you^* gave the Nazirites wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, Do not Prophesy.

    ^2:13 Behold, I will press you^* in your^* place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves. ^2:14 And flight will perish from the swift and the strong will not strengthen his force, nor will the mighty deliver himself. ^2:15 Neither will he stand who handles the bow. And he who is swift of foot will not deliver himself, nor will he who rides the horse deliver himself. ^2:16 And he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked in that day, says Jehovah.