¹Thus says the Lord :

For three transgressions of Moab,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because he burned to lime

the bones of the king of Edom.

²So I will send fire against Moab,

and it will devour the fortresses of Kerioth;

Moab will die in uproar,

with a war cry and the alarm of the trumpet.

³I will cut off the ruler from its midst,

and will slay all its princes with him,

says the Lord .

Judgment Against Judah

⁴Thus says the Lord :

For three transgressions of Judah,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they have rejected the law of the Lord ,

and have not kept His commandments.

The lies which their fathers followed

have led them astray.

⁵So I will send fire against Judah,

and it will devour the fortresses of Jerusalem.

Judgment Against Israel

⁶Thus says the Lord :

For three transgressions of Israel,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they sell the righteous for silver,

and the poor for a pair of sandals.

⁷They trample the head of the poor

into the dust of the earth,

and push the oppressed out of the way.

A man and his father go in to the same woman,

profaning My holy name.

⁸They recline by every altar

on garments taken in pledge,

and in the house of their gods

they drink the wine from those who have been fined.

⁹Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,[#Nu 13:32–33]

whose height was like the height of the cedars.

He was strong as the oaks,

yet I destroyed his fruit above

and his roots below.

¹⁰It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,[#Ex 12:51]

and led you forty years through the wilderness,

to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹I raised up some of your sons as prophets,

and some of your young men as Nazirites.

Is it not so, O Israelites?

says the Lord .

¹²But you made the Nazirites drink wine,[#Nu 6:2–3]

and commanded the prophets, saying, “Do not prophesy.”

¹³Behold, I will slow you down,

as a wagon is slowed that is full of sheaves.

¹⁴Flight will perish from the swift,

the strong will not retain his strength,

nor will the warrior save his life.

¹⁵The bowman will not stand firm,

the swift-footed will not escape,

nor will the horseman save his life.

¹⁶He that is courageous among the warriors[#Jer 48:41]

will flee away naked on that day,

says the Lord .