Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of ^aMoab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

 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:

 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

 4 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ^adespised 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:

 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

 6 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they ^asold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

 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 ^aprofane my holy name:

 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.

 9 Yet ^adestroyed 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.

 10 Also I ^abrought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you ^bforty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for ^aNazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.

 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.