1-3. God’s Message:“Because of the three great sins of Moab—make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer.She violated the corpse of Edom’s king,burning it to cinders.For that, I’m burning down Moab,burning down the forts of Kerioth.Moab will die in the shouting,go out in the blare of war trumpets.I’ll remove the king from the centerand kill all his princes with him.”God’s Decree.
4-5. God’s Message:“Because of the three great sins of Judah—make that four—I’m not putting up with them any longer.They rejected God’s revelation,refused to keep my commands.But they swallowed the same old liesthat got their ancestors onto dead-end roads.For that, I’m burning down Judah,burning down all the forts of Jerusalem.”
6-8. God’s Message:“Because of the three great sins of Israel—make that four—I’m not putting up with them any longer.They buy and sell upstanding people.People for them are only things—ways of making money.They’d sell a poor man for a pair of shoes.They’d sell their own grandmother!They grind the penniless into the dirt,shove the luckless into the ditch.Everyone and his brother sleeps with the ‘sacred whore’—a sacrilege against my Holy Name.Stuff they’ve extorted from the pooris piled up at the shrine of their god,While they sit around drinking winethey’ve conned from their victims.