2:1 Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of
Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the
bones of the king of Idumea to lime.
2:2 But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the
foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout,
and with the sound of a trumpet.
2: And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with
him, saith the Lord.
2:4 Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for
four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of
the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain [idols] which
they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.
2:5 And I will send a fire on Juda, and it shall devour the foundations of
Jerusalem.
2:6 Thus saith the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not
turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor
for sandals,
2:7 wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon
the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son
and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the
name of their God.
2:8 And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near
the altar, and they have drunk wine gained by extortion in the house of
their God.
2:9 Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as
the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit
from above, and his roots from beneath.
2:10 And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the
desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.
2:11 And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for
consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord.
2:12 But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the
prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
2:13 Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is
rolled.
2:14 And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold
fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:
2:15 and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall
in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.
2:16 And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee
away in that day, saith the Lord. |
2:1 Thus saith 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:
2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of
Kirioth: 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 the LORD.
2:4 Thus saith 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:
2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem.
2:6 Thus saith 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;
2:7 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 unto the same
maid, to profane my holy name:
2:8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar,
and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
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 from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years
through 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
Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets,
saying, Prophesy not.
2:13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of
sheaves.
2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall
not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
2:15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of
foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse
deliver himself.
2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in
that day, saith the LORD. |