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Thus says Yahuah: “For three transgressions of Moav, and for four, I will not turn it back, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
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And I will send fire upon Moav, and it shall consume the strongholds of Qeriyot. And Moav shall die in tumult, with shouting and with the sound of the shofar.
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And I will cut off the judge from her midst, and all her rulers I will kill with him,” says Yahuah.
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Thus says Yahuah: “For three transgressions of Yehudah, and for four, I will not turn it back, because they rejected the Torah of Yahuah and did not guard His statutes, and their lies caused them to wander— those after which their fathers walked.
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And I will send fire upon Yehudah, and it shall consume the strongholds of Yerushalayim.”
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Thus says Yahuah: “For three transgressions of Yisra’el, and for four, I will not turn it back, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.
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They pant after the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and they bend the way of the afflicted. And an ish and his father go in to the same young woman, to profane My Holy Name.
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And upon garments taken in pledge they stretch themselves beside every altar, and they drink the wine of those fined in the house of their elohim.
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Yet I destroyed the Emori before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and he was strong like the oaks. And I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.
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And I brought you up from the land of Mitzrayim and led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Emori.
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And I raised up from your sons prophets, and from your young men Nazirites. Is this not so, sons of Yisra’el?” declares Yahuah.
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“But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and you commanded the prophets, saying: ‘Do not prophesy.’
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See, I will press you down in your place as a wagon presses when it is full of sheaves.
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And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his power, and the mighty shall not deliver his being.
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And the one who handles the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, and the rider upon the horse shall not deliver his being.
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And the strong-hearted among the mighty shall flee naked in that day,” declares Yahuah.