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:[ † ]Isaiah 15:1-16Jeremiah 25:21Ezekiel 25:8-11Zephaniah 2:8-112 Kings 3:26-27 2but 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:[ † ]Jeremiah 48:24-41
3and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord .[ † ]Numbers 24:17Jeremiah 48:7
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 Kings 17:19Hosea 12:2Amos 3:2Leviticus 26:14Isaiah 9:15-16Isaiah 28:15Jeremiah 16:19Habakkuk 2:18Jeremiah 9:14Jeremiah 16:11-12Ezekiel 20:13-16, 18
5but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.[ † ]Jeremiah 17:27Hosea 8:14
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;[ † ]Judges 2:17-202 Kings 17:7-182 Kings 18:12Ezekiel 22:1-13, 23-29Isaiah 29:21Joel 3:3Amos 4:1Amos 5:11Amos 8:6Micah 2:2Micah 3:3 7that 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:[ † ]Amos 5:12Leviticus 18:6-8Ezekiel 22:11Leviticus 20:3Ezekiel 36:20-22 8and 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.[ † ]1 Corinthians 8:10Exodus 22:26
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.[ † ]Genesis 15:16Numbers 21:25Deuteronomy 2:31Joshua 10:12Ezekiel 31:3Isaiah 5:24Ezekiel 17:9Malachi 4:1 10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.[ † ]Exodus 12:51Amos 3:1Amos 9:7Deuteronomy 2:7 11And 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 .[ † ]Numbers 12:6Numbers 6:2-3Judges 13:5 12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.[ † ]Isaiah 30:10Jeremiah 11:21Amos 7:13-16Micah 2:6
13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.[ † ]Isaiah 1:14 14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:[ † ]Jeremiah 46:6Psalms 33:16Jeremiah 9:23 15neither 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. 16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord .