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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. |
[1]I will send as it were reptiles on the land: is not the mount of the daughter of Sion a desolate rock? |
| [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. |
[2]For thou shalt be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown: even thou shalt be so, daughter of Moab: and then do thou, O 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. |
[3]take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not thou led captive. |
| [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. |
[4]The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with thee; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer: for thine alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth. |
| [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. |
[5]And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hasting righteousness. |
| [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. |
[6]We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: thy prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus. |
| [7]Therefore shall Moab howl unto Moab: everyone shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn, yet they shall be stricken. |
[7]Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab: but thou shalt care for them that dwell in Seth, and thou shalt not be ashamed. |
| [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. |
[8]The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations, trample ye her vines, even to Jazer: ye shall not come together; wander ye in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to 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. |
[9]Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sebama; Esebon and Eleale have cast down thy trees; for I will trample on thy harvest and on thy vintages, and all thy plants shall fall. |
| [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. |
[10]And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for the vintage has ceased. |
| [11]Wherefore, my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Ker-haresh. |
[11]Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall. |
| [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. |
[12]And it shall be to thy shame, (for Moab is wearied at the altars,) that he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall not be at all able to deliver him. |
| [13]This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time. |
[13]This is the word which the Lord spoke against Moab, when he spoke. |
| [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. |
[14]And now I say, in three years, of the years of an hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonoured with all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honoured. |