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Thussays the LORD, "For threetransgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
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Thussays the LORD, "For threetransgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the law of the LORD And have not kept His statutes; Their lies also have led them astray, Those afterwhich their fatherswalked.
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Thussays the LORD, "For threetransgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for money And the needy for a pair of sandals.
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"These who pantafter the very dust of the earth on the head of the helpless Also turnaside the way of the humble; And a man and his fatherresort to the same girl In order to profane My holyname.
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"Yet it was I who destroyed the Amoritebefore* them, Though his height was like the height of cedars And he was strong as the oaks; I even destroyed his fruitabove* and his rootbelow*.
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"It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And I led you in the wildernessfortyyears That you might takepossession of the land of the Amorite.