3 I will cut off the ruler from her midst, and slay all her princes with him. Thus Adonai has said. As for Judah and Israel
4 Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.
5 So I will send fire upon Judah— it will devour Jerusalem’s citadels.”
6 Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Israel even for four, I will not relent. For they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes.
7 They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and thwart the way of the humble. A man and his father go to the same girl, to profane My holy Name.
8 Upon garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and drink wine confiscated as fines in the house of their gods.
9 “I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like cedars and as strong as oaks— yes, I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.