9. Set up a tombstone for Moab;it will soon become a complete wasteland,Its cities turned into ruinswhere no one dwells.
10. Cursed are they who do the Lord’s work carelessly,cursed those who keep their sword from shedding blood.
11. Moab has been resting from its youth,suspended above its dregs,Never poured from flask to flask,never driven into exile.Thus it retained its flavor,its bouquet is not lost.
12. Be assured! The days are coming—oracle of the Lord—when I will send him wine-makers to decant the wine; they shall empty its flasks and smash its jars.
13. Chemosh shall disappoint Moab, just as the house of Israel was disappointed by Bethel, in which they trusted.
14. How can you say, “We are heroes,mighty warriors”?
15. The one who ravages Moab and its cities comes up,the best of its youth go down to slaughter—oracle of the King, whose name is Lord of hosts.
16. Moab’s ruin is near at hand,its disaster approaches swiftly.
17. Mourn, all you neighbors,all you who know its name!Say: How the mighty scepter is broken,the glorious staff!
18. Come down from glory, sit on the parched ground,enthroned daughter Dibon;Moab’s destroyer has fallen upon you,has shattered your strongholds.
19. Stand along the road, keep watch,enthroned Aroer;Ask the fleeing man, the escaping woman:ask them what has happened.
20. “Moab is put to shame, destroyed.”Wail and cry out,Proclaim it at the Arnon:“Moab is destroyed!”
21. Judgment has come upon the plateau: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
22. on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
23. on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
24. on Kerioth and on Bozrah: on all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
25. The horn of Moab is cut off,its arm is broken—oracle of the Lord.
26. Make him drunk because he set himself over against the Lord; let Moab swim in his vomit and become a laughingstock.