Chapter 2

God also threateneth Moab, ℣.4 Juda, ℣.6 and Israel, ℣.9 that for ingratitude, ℣.12 and other sins, they shall be brought into captivity.

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   Thus saith our Lord: Upon three wickednesses of Moab, and upon four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of Idumea even to ashes.

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   And I will send fire into Moab, and it shall devour the house of Carioth: and Moab shall die in the sound, in the noise of the trumpet:

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   and I will destroy the judge out of the midst of him, and all his princes I will kill with him, saith our Lord.

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   Thus saith our Lord: Upon three wickednesses of Juda, and upon four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of our Lord, and not kept his commandments: for their idols have deceived them, after which their fathers went.

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   And I will send fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

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   Thus saith our Lord: Upon three wickednesses of Israel, and upon four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just for silver, and the poor for shoes.

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   Which bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and decline the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to a young woman, that they might violate my holy name.

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   And upon garments laid to pledge they did lie beside every altar: & the wine of the condemned they drank in the house of their God.

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   But I did cast out the Amorrheite before their face: whose height the height of Cedars, & he strong as an oak: & I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

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    It is I that made you come up out of the Land of Ægypt, and I led you in the desert forty years, that you might possess the Land of the Amorrheite.

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    And I raised up of your sons to be Prophets and of your young men Nazareites, is it not so o children of Israel, saith our Lord?

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    And you drank wine to the Nazareites: and the Prophets you commanded, saying: prophesy not.

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    Behold I will screak under you, as a wain screaketh laden with hay.

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    And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not obtain his strength, and the strong shall not save his life.

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    And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of his feet shall not be saved, and the rider of the horse shall not save his life.

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    and the stout of heart among the valiants shall fly naked in that day, saith our Lord.