19. You that live in Aroer,stand by the road and wait;ask those who are running away,find out from them what has happened.
20. ‘Moab has fallen,’ they will answer,‘weep for it; it is disgraced.Announce along the River Arnonthat Moab is destroyed!’
21. “Judgement has come on the cities of the plateau: on Holon, Jahzah, Mephath,
22. Dibon, Nebo, Beth Diblathaim,
23. Kiriathaim, Bethgamul, Bethmeon,
24. Kerioth, and Bozrah. Judgement has come on all the cities of Moab, far and near.
25. Moab's might has been crushed; its power has been destroyed. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
26. The Lord said, “Make Moab drunk, because it has rebelled against me. Moab will roll in its own vomit, and people will laugh.
27. Moab, remember how you jeered at the people of Israel? You treated them as though they had been caught with a gang of robbers.
28. “You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.
29. Moab is very proud! I have heard how proud, arrogant, and conceited the people are, how much they think of themselves.
30. I, the Lord, know of their arrogance. Their boasts amount to nothing, and the things they do will not last.
31. And so I will weep for everyone in Moab and for the people of Kir Heres.
32. I will cry for the people of Sibmah, even more than for the people of Jazer. City of Sibmah, you are like a vine whose branches reach across the Dead Sea and go as far as Jazer. But now your summer fruits and your grapes have been destroyed.
33. Happiness and joy have been taken away from the fertile land of Moab. I have made the wine stop flowing from the winepresses; there is no one to make the wine and shout for joy.
34. “The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, and their cry can be heard as far as Jahaz; it can be heard by the people in Zoar, and it is heard as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah. Even the brook of Nimrim has dried up.
35. I will stop the people of Moab from making burnt offerings at their places of worship and from offering sacrifices to their gods. I, the Lord, have spoken.
36. “So my heart mourns for Moab and for the people of Kir Heres, like someone playing a funeral song on a flute, because everything they owned is gone.