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Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Moab , yea, 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 Kerioth ; 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 Jehovah .
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Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Judah , yea, 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 :
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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 Jehovah : For three transgressions of Israel , yea, 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 -
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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 :
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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.
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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 out of the land of Egypt , and led you forty years in 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 Nazirites . Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel ? saith Jehovah .
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But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets , saying, Prophesy not.
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Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
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And 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 Jehovah .