4. Thus says the Lord:“For three transgressions of Judah, and for four,I will not turn away its punishment,Because they have despised the law of the Lord,And have not kept His commandments.Their lies lead them astray,Lies which their fathers followed.
5. But I will send a fire upon Judah,And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
6. Thus says the Lord:“For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,I will not turn away its punishment,Because they sell the righteous for silver,And the poor for a pair of sandals.
7. They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,And pervert the way of the humble.A man and his father go in to the same girl,To defile My holy name.
8. They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge,And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
9. “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,Whose height was like the height of the cedars,And he was as strong as the oaks;Yet I destroyed his fruit aboveAnd his roots beneath.