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And it shall devour the palace thereof;

⁸And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod,

And him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon;

And I will turn My hand against Ekron,

And the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,

Saith the Lord God.

 

⁹Thus saith the Lord:

For three transgressions of Tyre,

Yea, for four, I will not reverse it:

Because they delivered up a whole captivity to Edom,

And remembered not the brotherly covenant.

¹⁰So will I send a fire on the wall of Tyre,

And it shall devour the palaces thereof.

 

¹¹Thus saith the Lord:

For three transgressions of Edom,

Yea, for four, I will not reverse it:

Because he did pursue his brother with the sword,

And did cast off all pity,

And his anger did tear perpetually,

And he kept his wrath for ever.

¹²So will I send a fire upon Teman,

And it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

 

¹³Thus saith the Lord:

For three transgressions of the children of Ammon,

Yea, for four, I will not reverse it:

Because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead,

That they might enlarge their border.

¹⁴So will I kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,

And it shall devour the palaces thereof,

With shouting in the day of battle,

With a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

¹⁵And their king shall go into captivity,

He and his princes together,

Saith the Lord.

 

2Thus saith the Lord:

For three transgressions of Moab,

Yea, for four, I will not reverse it:

Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

²So will I send a fire upon Moab,

And it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth;

And Moab shall die with tumult,

With shouting, and with the sound of the horn;

³And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof,

And will slay all the princes thereof with him,

Saith the Lord.

 

⁴Thus saith the Lord:

For three transgressions of Judah,

Yea, for four, I will not reverse it:

Because they have rejected the law of the Lord,

And have not kept His statutes,

And their lies have caused them to err,

After which their fathers did walk.

⁵So will I send a fire upon Judah,

And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

 

⁶Thus saith the Lord:

For three transgressions, of Israel,

Yea, for four, I will not reverse it:

Because they sell the righteous for silver,

And the needy for a pair of shoes;

⁷That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,

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