Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His ordinances, and their vain [idols] which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.

Thus says the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gileadites.

Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut [them] up into Edom.

Thus says the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Edom, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.

Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts.

And the children of Israel departed, and encamped on the west of Moab by the Jordan toward Jericho.

then Moab feared the people exceedingly because they were many; and Moab was grieved before the face of the children of Israel.

And he sent ambassadors to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is on a river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people have come out of Egypt, and behold, they have covered the face of the earth, and have encamped close to me.

And the elders of Moab went, and the elders of Midian, and their divining [instruments were] in their hands; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

And God came to Balaam, and said to him, Who are these men with you?

Behold, a people has come forth out of Egypt, and has covered the face of the land, and they have encamped near to me; and now come, curse them for me, if indeed I shall be able to smite them, and cast them out of the land.

And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Depart quickly to your lord; God does not permit me to go with you.

And Balak yet again sent more princes, and more honorable than they.

For I will greatly honor you, and will do for you whatsoever you shall say; come then, curse this people for me.

And now, you also tarry here this night, and I shall know what the Lord will yet say to me.

And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord standing opposite in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand, then the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. And [Balaam] struck the donkey with his staff to direct her in the way.

And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall, and he struck her again.

because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when you went out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Mesopotamia to curse you.

But the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam; and the Lord your God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord your God loved you.

They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

O My people, remember now, what counsel Balak king of Moab took against you, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Gilgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.

And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines; they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them [that come] from the east, and Edom; and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey [them].

The word against the land of Moab. By night the land of Moab shall be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moab shall be destroyed.

Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets; and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl, all of you, with weeping.

The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is [as] a heifer of three years old; and on the Ascent of Luith they shall go up to you weeping by the way of Aroniim; she cries, Destruction, and trembling.

Shall [Moab] even thus be delivered? For I [will] bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

And the water of Dimon shall be filled with blood; for I will bring Arabians upon Dimon, and I will take away the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adamah.

God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with wagons.

Thus Says the Lord concerning Moab: Woe to Nebo! For it has perished. Kirjathaim is taken; Amath and Agath are put to shame.

for [there is] a voice of [men] crying out of Horonaim, destruction and great ruin.

for Aloth is filled with weeping; one shall go up weeping by the way of Horonaim; you have heard a cry of destruction.

Since you have trusted in your stronghold, therefore you shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.

Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be hit with a plague, and all her cities shall become desolate; where [shall there be] an inhabitant for her?

Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out [his liquor] from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.

And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their hope, having trusted in them.

Moab is ruined, [even] his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.

Shake [the head] at him, all you that are round about him; all [of you] utter his name. Say, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!

Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Aroer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?

And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas,

and upon Kirjathaim, and upon Beth Gamul, and upon Beth Meon,

The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.

For surely Israel was to you a laughing stock, and was found among your thefts, because you fought against him.

And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.

Therefore howl for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men [in] a gloomy place. I will weep for you,

Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab; and [though] there was wine in your presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.

And I will destroy Moab, says the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.

They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat [their breasts], and on all loins shall be sackcloth.

How has he changed! How has Moab turned [his] back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about him.

Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds have been taken together.

A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab.

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Thus says the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the houses of Israel and Judah like all the [other] nations?

Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, [even] the choice land, the house of Beth Jeshimoth above the fountain of the city, by the seaside.

I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reviled My people, and magnified themselves against My coasts.

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah; and Damascus [shall be] left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate forever: and the remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My nations shall inherit them.

And the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they marched on that roundabout route for seven days; and there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that went with them.

And the king of Moab saw that the battle prevailed against him; and he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to cut through to the king of Edom, and they could not.

The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place.