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| [1]Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from the crags that are toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. |
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| [2]For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon. |
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| [3]'Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. |
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| [4]Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the spoiler.' For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth, they that trampled down are consumed out of the land; |
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| [5]And a thron established through mercy, and there sitteth thereon in truth, in the tent of David, one that judgeth, an seeketh justice, and is ready in righteousness. |
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| [6]We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud; even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, his ill-founded boastings. |
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| [7]Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall y mourn, sorely stricken. |
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| [8]For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. |
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| [9]Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh; for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the battle shout is fallen. |
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| [10]And gladness and joy are taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting; no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage shout to cease. |
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| [11]Wherefore my heart moaneth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres. |
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| [12]And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab hath wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail |
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| [13]This is the word that 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 spoke concerning Moab in time past. |
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| [14]But now 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 hath spoken, saying: 'Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall wax contemptible for all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and without strength.' |
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