1Of Moab. This is what the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel says: Woe betide Nebo! It is laid waste; Kiriathaim captured and put to shame, Misgab reduced to shame and dismay;
2Moab's glory is no more. In Heshbon they plot her downfall: “Come, put an end to that nation.” And you, the inhabitants of Madhmen, will also perish, pursued by the sword.
3Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim: “Havoc and utter destruction!”
4Moab is broken; their cries are heard as far as Zoar.
5On the ascent to Luhith they go up weeping bitterly; on the descent to Horonaim an anguished cry of destruction is heard.
6Flee, escape with your lives and become like one destitute in the wilderness.
7Because you trust in your defences and arsenals, you too will be captured, and Kemosh will go into exile, his priests and those in attendance with him.
8A despoiler will come against every town; no town will escape, valley and tableland will be laid waste and plundered; the LORD has spoken.
9Give a warning signal to Moab, for she will be laid in ruins; and her towns will become waste places with no inhabitant in them.
10A curse on all who are slack in doing the LORD's work! A curse on all who withhold their swords from bloodshed!
11From its earliest days Moab has been undisturbed and never gone into exile. It has been like wine settled on its lees, not decanted from vessel to vessel; its flavour remains unaltered and its aroma stays unchanged.
12Therefore the days are coming, says the LORD, when I shall send men to tilt the jars; they will empty the vessels and smash the jars.
13Moab will be let down by Kemosh as Israel was let down by Bethel, a god in whom they trusted.
14How can you say, “We are warriors, men valiant in battle”?
15The spoiler of Moab and its towns has launched an attack, and the flower of its youth goes down to be slaughtered. This is the word of the King whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
16Retribution on Moab is near at hand, disaster rushing swiftly on him.
17Bewail him, all you his neighbours and all who knew his fame; and say, “Alas! The commander's staff is broken, that splendid baton.”
18Come down from your place of honour, sit on the parched ground, you natives of Dibon; for the spoiler of Moab has come against you and destroyed your citadels.
19You that live in Aroer, stand by the road and watch, ask the man running away, the woman escaping, ask, “What has happened?”
20Moab is reduced to shame and dismay: wail and cry, proclaim by the Arnon that Moab is despoiled.
21Judgement has come to the tableland, to Holon and Jahaz, Mephaath
22and Dibon, Nebo and Beth-diblathaim
23and Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, Beth-meon,
24Kerioth and Bozrah, and to all the towns of Moab far and near.
25Moab's horn is hacked off and his strong arm is broken, says the LORD.
26Make Moab drunk -- he has defied the LORD. Let Moab overflow with his vomit and become in turn a butt for derision.
27Was not Israel your butt? Yet was he ever in company with thieves, that each time you spoke of him you shook your head?
28Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab, and find a home among the crags; become like a dove which nests in the rock-face at the mouth of a cavern.
29We have heard of Moab's pride, and proud indeed he is, proud, presumptuous, overbearing, insolent.
30I know his arrogance, says the LORD; his boasting is false, false are his deeds.
31Therefore I shall wail over Moab, cry in anguish for the whole of Moab; I shall moan over the men of Kir-heres.
32More than I wept for Jazer I shall weep for you, vine of Sibmah, whose branches spread out to the sea and reach as far as Jazer. The despoiler has fallen on your harvest and vintage;
33gladness and joy are taken away from the garden land of Moab; I have dried up the flow of wine from the vats, and the shouts of those treading the grapes will echo no more.
34Heshbon and Elealeh utter cries of anguish which are heard in Jahaz; the sound carries from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for the waters of Nimrim have become a desolate waste.
35In Moab I shall put an end to their sacrificing at shrines and burning of offerings to their gods, says the LORD.
36Therefore I wail for Moab like a reed-pipe, wail like a reed-pipe for the men of Kir-heres. Their accumulated wealth has vanished.
37Every man's head is shorn in mourning, every beard clipped, every hand gashed, and every waist girded with sackcloth.
38On all Moab's roofs and in all her broad streets nothing is heard but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like an unwanted pot, says the LORD.
39Moab is dismayed and has turned away in shame. It has become a butt of derision and a cause of dismay to all round about.
40For the LORD has spoken: Like an eagle with outspread wings he swoops down on Moab.
41Towns are captured, the strongholds taken; on that day the spirit of Moab's warriors will fail like the spirit of a woman in labour.
42The Moabite nation will be destroyed, for it vaunted itself against the LORD.
43The hunter's scare, the pit, and the trap threaten you dwellers in Moab, says the LORD.
44If anyone runs from the scare he will fall into the pit; if someone climbs out of the pit he will be caught in the trap. All this I shall bring on Moab in the year of their reckoning. This is the word of the LORD.
45In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stand helpless; for fire has blazed out from Heshbon, flames from within Sihon devouring the braggarts of Moab, both forehead and crown.
46Woe betide you, Moab! The people of Kemosh have vanished, for your sons are taken into captivity, your daughters led away captive.
47Yet in days to come I shall restore Moab's fortunes. This is the word of the LORD. Here ends the judgement on Moab.
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