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| [1]Of Moab. Thus saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and dismayed. |
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| [2]The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: 'Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation.' Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue thee. |
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| [3]Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction! |
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| [4]Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. |
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| [5]For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for in the going down of Horonaim they have heard the distressing cry of destruction. |
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| [6]Flee, save your lives, and be like a tamarisk in the wilderness. |
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| [7]For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together. |
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| [8]And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 hath spoken. |
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| [9]Give wings unto Moab, for she must fly and get away; and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein. |
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| [10]Cursed be he that doeth the work of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 with a slack hand, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. |
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| [11]Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remaineth in him, and his scent is not changed. |
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| [12]Therefore, behold, the days come, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, that I will send unto him them that tilt up, and they shall tilt him up; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. |
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| [13]And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed o Beth-el their confidence. |
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| [14]How say ye: 'We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war'? |
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| [15]Moab is spoiled, and they are gone up into her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to slaughter, saith the King, whose name is 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts. |
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| [16]The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. |
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| [17]Bemoan him, all ye that are round about him, and all ye that know his name; say: 'How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!' |
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| [18]O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds. |
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| [19]O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth; say: 'What hath been done?' |
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| [20]Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed; wail and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled. |
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| [21]And judgment is come upon the country of the Plain; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath; |
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| [22]And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim; |
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| [23]And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upo Beth-meon; |
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| [24]And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. |
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| [25]The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. |
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| [26]Make ye him drunken, for he magnified himself against 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇; and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. |
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| [27]For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves? For as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head. |
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| [28]O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the pit's mouth. |
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| [29]We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his haughtiness, and the assumption of his heart. |
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| [30]I know his arrogancy, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, that it is ill-founded; his boastings have wrought nothing well-founded. |
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| [31]Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-heres shall my heart moan. |
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| [32]With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah; thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer; upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the spoiler is fallen. |
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| [33]And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses; none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. |
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| [34]From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, a heifer of three years old; for the Waters of Nimrim also shall be desolate. |
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| [35]Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, him that offereth in the high place, and him that offereth to his gods. |
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| [36]Therefore my heart moaneth for Moab like pipes, and my heart moaneth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. |
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| [37]For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. |
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| [38]On all the housetops of Moab and in the broad places thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. |
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| [39]'How is it broken down!' wail ye! 'How hath Moab turned the back with shame!' so shall Moab become a derision and a dismay to all that are round about him. |
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| [40]For thus saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇: Behold, he shall swoop as a vulture, and shall spread out his wings against Moab. |
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| [41]The cities are taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. |
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| [42]And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. |
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| [43]Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. |
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| [44]He that fleeth from the terror shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the trap; for I will bring upon her, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. |
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| [45]In the shadow Heshbon the fugitives stand without strength; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and it devoureth the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. |
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| [46]Woe unto thee, O Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity. |
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| [47]Yet will I turn the captivity of Moab in the end of days, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. |
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