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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.
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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;
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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.
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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.
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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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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,
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Behold, I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
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Therefore, the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
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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.
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And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.