1 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn it back, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
2 So I will send fire on Moab, and it will eat up the strongholds of Kerioth; amid the din Moab will die, with the war cry and the blast of the horn.
3 From within her I will cut off the one who judges, and all her officials I will slay along with him, says the LORD.
4 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn it back, because they cast aside the law of the LORD and failed to keep his statutes; they were led astray by their lies, the same lies their fathers followed.
5 So I will send fire on Judah, and it will eat up the strongholds of Jerusalem.
6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn it back, because for silver they sell the righteous, and the needy for the price of a pair of sandals.
7 They pant after the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and shove the humble out of the way; son and father go to the same girl, to profane my holy name.
8 Beside every altar they sprawl on clothes seized as pledges, and they drink wine paid as fines in the house of their God.
9 Yet I wiped out the Amorite ahead of them, tall as cedars and sturdy as oaks; I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below.
10 I myself brought you up from the land of Egypt and guided you through the wilderness forty years, so that you could possess the Amorite's land.
11 From among your sons I raised up prophets, and from among your young men Nazirites. Is this not so, children of Israel? declares the LORD.
12 Yet you gave the Nazirites wine to drink and told the prophets, "Do not prophesy."
13 See, I am going to make the ground give way beneath you, as a cart sways when it is loaded with sheaves.
14 The swift will find no place to flee; the strong will not muster his strength; the warrior will not save his life.
15 The bowman will not hold his place; the fast runner will not get away; the horseman will not save his life.
16 Even the most courageous of the warriors will run away naked on that day, declares the LORD.