3 I will cut off the judge from the landand kill all its officials with him.The Lord has spoken.
4 The Lord says:I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four,because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord and have not kept His statutes. The lies that their ancestors followed have led them astray.
5 Therefore, I will send fire against Judah,and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.
6 The Lord says:I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four,because they sell a righteous person for silverand a needy person for a pair of sandals.
7 They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the groundand block the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relationswith the same girl, profaning My holy name.
8 They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken as collateral, and in the house of their God,they drink wine obtained through fines.
9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced;his height was like the cedars,and he was as sturdy as the oaks;I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.