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1 Of Moab. Jehovah of Armies, the God of Israel,
says: “Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is
taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. 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. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the
sword shall pursue you. 3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and
great destruction! 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry
to be heard. 5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping they
shall go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the
cry of destruction. 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
wilderness. 7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your
treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go out into captivity,
his priests and his princes together. 8 The destroyer shall come on every
city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain
shall be destroyed; as Jehovah has spoken. 9 Give wings to Moab, that she
may fly and get herself away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without
any to dwell therein. 10 Cursed is he who does the work of Jehovah
negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood. 11 Moab
has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not
been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity:
therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.”
12 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Jehovah,
“that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and
they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. 13 Moab
shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their
confidence. 14 How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the
war?’ 15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his
chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is Jehovah
of Armies.
16 “The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his
affliction hurries fast. 17 All you who are around him, bemoan him, and
all you who know his name; say, ‘How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful
rod!’ 18 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and
sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has
destroyed your strongholds. 19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and
watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’ 20 Moab
is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon,
that Moab is laid waste. 21 Judgment has come on the plain country, on
Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath, 22 and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and
on Beth Diblathaim, 23 and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth
Meon, 24 and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land
of Moab, far or near. 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is
broken,” says Jehovah.
26 “Make him drunken; for he magnified himself
against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in
derision. 27 For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among
thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head. 28 You
inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the
dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss. 29 We have heard of
the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his
arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his wrath,” says Jehovah,
“that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing.”
31 “Therefore I will wail for Moab; yes, I will
cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres they shall mourn. 32 With
more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your
branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your
summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen. 33 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 wine presses: no one shall tread with shouting;
the shouting shall be no shouting. 34 From the cry of Heshbon even to
Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to
Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become
desolate.”
35 “Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says
Jehovah, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his
gods. 36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart
sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has
gotten is perished. 37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on
all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth. 38 On all the
housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I
have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says Jehovah.
39 “How it is broken down! How they wail! How
Moab has turned the back with shame! So shall Moab become a derision and a
terror to all who are around him.” 40 For Jehovah says: “Behold, he shall
fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab. 41 Kerioth
is 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. 42 Moab
shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself
against Jehovah. 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you,
inhabitant of Moab,” says Jehovah. 44 “He who flees from the fear shall
fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the
snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,”
says Jehovah.
45 “Those who fled stand without strength under
the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the
middle of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head
of the tumultuous ones. 46 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are
undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into
captivity. 47 Yet I will restore Moab from captivity in the latter days,”
says Jehovah.
Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
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