4 Thus says the Lord:For three crimes of Judah, and now four—I will not take it back—Because they spurned the instruction of the Lord,and did not keep his statutes;Because the lies which their ancestors followedhave led them astray,
5 I will send fire upon Judah,and it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.
6 Thus says the Lord:For three crimes of Israel, and now four—I will not take it back—Because they hand over the just for silver,and the poor for a pair of sandals;
7 They trample the heads of the destituteinto the dust of the earth,and force the lowly out of the way.Son and father sleep with the same girl,profaning my holy name.
8 Upon garments taken in pledgethey recline beside any altar. Wine at treasury expensethey drink in their temples.
9 Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them,who were as tall as cedars,and as strong as oak trees.I destroyed their fruit aboveand their roots beneath.
10 It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,and who led you through the desert for forty years,to occupy the land of the Amorites;