10. Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field. In the vineyards, no singing for joy no happy shouting, no treading wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
11. Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a lyre, and my inward part for Kir-heres.
12. So it will be, when Moab is weary upon the high place and comes to his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
13. This is the word that Adonai spoke concerning Moab in the past.
14. But now Adonai has spoken, saying: “Within three years (as with the years of a hired worker), the glory of Moab will be disgraced; for all his large population, the remnant will be very small and feeble.”