2: 2 but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; 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 Jehovah.
2: 4 Thus saith Jehovah: for three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk:
2: 5 but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
2: 6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
2: 7 they 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 go unto 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 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 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 ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.
2: 12 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
2: 13 Behold, 11I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
11Or, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
2: 14 And 12flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver 13his soul;
12Or, refuge shall fail the swift;
13Or, himself; or, his life; And in vs. 15.
2: 15 neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver his soul; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver his soul;
2: 16 and he that 14is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.
14So Massoretic, Aram. 4QXIIc Sept. read finds heart
