(2:1, 4, 6) God says there are three or four reasons for him to punish various people,
he just can't remember which it is."
(2:1) "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I
will not turn away the punishment thereof"
(2:2, 5)
The divine pyromaniac threatens to "send a fire" into Moab and Judah.
(2:2) "I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die
with tumult."
(2:3) "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."
(2:5) "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"
(2:7) "A man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy
name."
(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"
2:1Thus 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.
2:4Thus 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.
2:6Thus 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.
2:9Yet 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.
(2:16) "He that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that
day, saith the LORD."
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