5. So I will send a fire upon Judah,and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”
6. Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel,and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because they sell the righteous for silver,and the needy for a pair of sandals—
7. those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earthand turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl,so that my holy name is profaned;
8. they lay themselves down beside every altaron garments taken in pledge,and in the house of their God they drinkthe wine of those who have been fined.
9. “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedarsand who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit aboveand his roots beneath.
10. Also it was I who 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. And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,and some of your young men for Nazirites.Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”declares the Lord.
12. “But you made the Nazirites drink wine,and commanded the prophets,saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’
13. “Behold, I will press you down in your place,as a cart full of sheaves presses down.
14. Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;
15. he who handles the bow shall not stand,and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;