1 Dette er Herrens ord: For tre synder av Moab, ja for fire, vil jeg ikke spare dem; fordi de brente Edoms konge til aske.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.

2 Jeg vil sende ild over Moab, som skal fortære palassene i Keriot, og Moab skal dø med larm, krigsrop og lyden av basun.

And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:

3 Jeg vil utrydde dommeren blant dem og drepe alle deres høvdinger med ham, sier Herren.

And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

4 Dette er Herrens ord: For tre synder av Juda, ja for fire, vil jeg ikke spare dem; fordi de har forkastet Herrens lov og ikke holdt hans bud, og deres fedres løgner har ført dem på avveie.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

5 Jeg vil sende ild over Juda, som skal fortære palassene i Jerusalem.

And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

6 Dette er Herrens ord: For tre synder av Israel, ja for fire, vil jeg ikke spare dem; fordi de har solgt de rettferdige for sølv og de fattige for et par sandaler.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

7 De knuser de fattiges hoder i støvet og avviker de elendiges vei: en mann og hans far går inn til samme unge kvinne, og vanærer mitt hellige navn.

Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

8 Ved hvert alter ligger de på klær tatt i pant, og i sin guds hus drikker de vin som de har tatt som bot for lovbrudd.

By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

9 Likevel ødela jeg amoritten foran dem, som var høy som sedertrær og sterk som eiketrær; jeg utryddet hans frukt ovenfra og hans røtter nedenfra.

Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.

10 Jeg førte dere opp fra Egyptens land og ledet dere i førti år gjennom ørkenen, så dere kunne innta amorittenes land.

And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

11 Jeg gjorde noen av deres sønner til profeter og noen av deres unge menn til nasireere. Er det ikke slik, Israels barn? sier Herren.

And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.

12 Men dere ga nasireerne vin og bød profetene å ikke profetere.

But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

13 Se, jeg knuser dere, som en vogn full av korn knuser.

See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.

14 Den raske skal ikke unnslippe, den sterke skal ikke klare det, og krigeren skal ikke reddes.

And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

15 Bueskytteren vil miste makten, den raske vil ikke unnslippe, og rytteren skal ikke bevare livet.

And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.

16 På den dagen skal den modigste kriger flykte naken, sier Herren.

And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.