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[1]Send ye a lamb to the ruler of the world from the rock of the wilderness, unto the mountain of the daughter Zion.
[2]For it shall be as a bird that flieth, and a nest forsaken: the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
[3]Gather a counsel, execute judgment: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that are chased out: bewray not him that is fled.
[4]Let my banished dwell with thee: Moab be thou their covert from the face of the destroyer: for the extortioner shall end: the destroyer shall be consumed, and the oppressor shall cease out of the land.
[5]And in mercy shall the throne be prepared, and he shall sit upon it in steadfastness, in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting justice.
[6]We have heard of the pride of Moab, (he is very proud) even his pride, and his arrogancy, and his indignation, but his lies shall not be so.
[7]Therefore shall Moab howl unto Moab: everyone shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn, yet they shall be stricken.
[8]For the vineyards of Heshbon are cut down, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken the principal vines thereof: they are come unto Jazer: they wandered in the wilderness: her goodly branches stretched out themselves, and went over the sea.
[9]Therefore will I weep with the weeping of Jazer, and of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I will make thee drunk with my tears, because upon thy summer fruits, and upon thy harvest a shouting is fallen.
[10]And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field: and in the vineyards shall be no singing nor shouting for joy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I have caused the rejoicing to cease.
[11]Wherefore, my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Ker-haresh.
[12]And when it shall appear that Moab shall be weary of his high places, then shall he come to his temple to pray, but he shall not prevail.
[13]This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.
[14]And now the Lord hath spoken, saying, In three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned in all the great multitude, and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
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