“For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four,
    I will not turn away its punishment;
    because they have rejected Yahweh’s law,
    and have not kept his statutes,
    and their lies have led them astray,
    after which their fathers walked;
⁵ but I will send a fire on Judah,
    and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

“For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four,
    I will not turn away its punishment;
    because they have sold the righteous for silver,
    and the needy for a pair of sandals;
⁷     They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
    and deny justice to the oppressed;
    and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
⁸     and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;
    and in the house of their God^[a] they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
⁹ Yet I destroyed 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.
¹⁰ Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
    and led you forty years in the wilderness,
    to possess the land of the Amorite.
¹¹ I raised up some of your sons for prophets,
    and some of your young men for Nazirites.
Isn’t this true,
    you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.
¹² “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
    and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’
¹³ Behold,^[b] I will crush you in your place,
    as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
¹⁴ Flight will perish from the swift;
    and the strong won’t strengthen his force;
    neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
¹⁵     neither shall he stand who handles the bow;
    and he who is swift of foot won’t escape;
    neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
¹⁶ and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,”