^(A)“For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he ^(B)burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
² But I will send a fire upon Moab,
And it shall devour the palaces of ^(C)Kerioth;
Moab shall die with tumult,
With shouting and trumpet sound.
³ And I will cut off ^(D)the judge from its midst,
And slay all its princes with him,”
Says the Lord.

“For three transgressions of ^(E)Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
^(F)Because they have despised the law of the Lord,
And have not kept His commandments.
^(G)Their lies lead them astray,
Lies ^(H)which their fathers followed.
^5 (I)But I will send a fire upon Judah,
And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

“For three transgressions of ^(J)Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because ^(K)they sell the righteous for silver,
And the ^(L)poor for a pair of sandals.
⁷ They ^[a]pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
And ^(M)pervert the way of the humble.
^(N)A man and his father go in to the same girl,
^(O)To defile My holy name.
⁸ They lie down ^(P)by every altar on clothes ^(Q)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of ^[b]the condemned in the house of their god.

⁹ “Yet it was I who destroyed the ^(R)Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the ^(S)height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I ^(T)destroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.
¹⁰ Also it was ^(U)I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And ^(V)led you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.
¹¹ I raised up some of your sons as ^(W)prophets,
And some of your young men as ^(X)Nazirites.
Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”
Says the Lord.
¹² “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
And commanded the prophets ^(Y)saying,
‘Do not prophesy!’

¹³ “Behold,^(Z) I am ^[c]weighed down by you,
As a cart full of sheaves ^[d]is weighed down.
^14 (AA)Therefore ^[e]flight shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall not strengthen his power,
^(AB)Nor shall the mighty ^[f]deliver himself;
¹⁵ He shall not stand who handles the bow,
The swift of foot shall not ^[g]escape,
Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
¹⁶ The most ^[h]courageous men of might
Shall flee naked in that day,”
Says the Lord.