7. Since you trust the things you do and your treasures,you will be captured.Chemosh will go into captivity with all its priests and officials.
8. The destroyer will come to every city, and no city will escape.The valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be laid wasteas the Lord has threatened.
9. Put salt on Moab.It will be destroyed.Its cities will become deserted ruins.
10. Cursed are those who neglect doing the Lord’s work.Cursed are those who keep their swords from killing.
11. “Moab has lived securely ever since it was young.Its people are like wine left to settle in a jar.They aren’t poured from one jar to another.They haven’t gone into captivity.That is why its flavor has remained the same,and its aroma hasn’t changed.
12. That is why the days are coming,” declares the Lord,“when I will send people to pour Moab out of its jarsand to smash its pitchers.
13. Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemoshas the nation of Israel was ashamed when it trusted Bethel.
14. “How can you say, ‘We are soldiers and warriors’?
15. The enemy will attack Moab and destroy its cities.Its finest young men will be slaughtered,”declares the king, whose name is the Lord of Armies.
16. “Moab’s destruction is coming near; disaster is coming quickly.
17. Mourn over it, all of its neighbors and everyone who knows its fame.Say, ‘Look at the strong staff, the beautiful rod, that is broken!’
18. “People of Dibon, come down from your place of honorand sit on the dry ground.The destroyers of Moab will attack you.They will destroy your fortresses.
19. Stand by the road in Aroer, and watch.Ask those who are fleeingand those who are escaping what is happening.
20. They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced; it is defeated.Shout loudly, and cry.Tell the news in Arnon that Moab is destroyed.’
21. “Judgment has come to all the cities on the plain: to Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,
22. Dibon, Nebo, Beth Diblathaim,
23. Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, Beth Meon,
24. Kerioth, Bozrah, and on all the cities of Moab, far and near.
25. “Moab’s horn is cut off, and its arm is broken,”declares the Lord.