# Chapter 2
1. 
The Lord says:
I will not relent from punishing Moab
for three crimes, even four,
because he burned the bones
of the king of Edom to lime.

2. Therefore, I will send fire against Moab,
and it will consume the citadels of Kerioth.
Moab will die with a tumult,
with shouting and the sound of the ram's horn.

3. I will cut off the judge from the land
and kill all its officials with him.

The Lord has spoken.

Judgment on Judah


4. 
The Lord says:
I will not relent from punishing Judah
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord
and have not kept his statutes.
The lies that their ancestors followed
have led them astray.

5. Therefore, I will send fire against Judah,
and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.

Judgment on Israel


6. 
The Lord says:
I will not relent from punishing Israel
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

7. They trample the heads of the poor
on the dust of the ground
and obstruct the path of the needy.

A man and his father have sexual relations
with the same girl,
profaning my holy name.

8. They stretch out beside every altar
on garments taken as collateral,
and in the house of their God
they drink wine obtained through fines.

9. Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced;
his height was like the cedars,
and he was as sturdy as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

10. And I brought you from the land of Egypt
and led you forty years in the wilderness
in order to possess the land of the Amorite.

11. I raised up some of your sons as prophets
and some of your young men as Nazirites.
Is this not the case, Israelites?
This is the Lord's declaration.

12. But you made the Nazirites drink wine
and commanded the prophets,
"Do not prophesy."

13. Look, I am about to crush you in your place
as a wagon crushes when full of grain.

14. Escape will fail the swift,
the strong one will not maintain his strength,
and the warrior will not save his life.

15. The archer will not stand his ground,
the one who is swift of foot
will not save himself,
and the one riding a horse will not save his life.

16. Even the most courageous of the warriors
will flee naked on that day--
this is the Lord's declaration.




