1 Thus said 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: Compare verse1 commentary
2 But I will send a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: Compare verse1 commentary
3 And I will cut off the judge from the middle thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, said the LORD. Compare verse1 commentary
4 Thus said 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: Compare verse1 commentary
5 But I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. Compare verse1 commentary
6 Thus said 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; Compare verse5 commentaries
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 to the same maid, to profane my holy name: Compare verse4 commentaries
8 And they lay themselves down on clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. Compare verse2 commentaries
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. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse1 commentary
11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O you children of Israel? said the LORD. Compare verse2 commentaries
12 But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. Compare verse2 commentaries
13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. Compare verse3 commentaries
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: Compare verse2 commentaries
15 Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rides the horse deliver himself. Compare verse1 commentary
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, said the LORD. Compare verse1 commentary