13. So Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
14. How can you say: ‘We are warriors and men valiant for battle’?
15. Moab is ravaged, its towns entered, its choice young men gone down to slaughter” —It is a declaration of the King, whose Name is Adonai-Tzva’ot.
16. “Moab’s calamity will come soon, and his downfall hastens swiftly.
17. Mourn for him, all who are around him, all who know his name. Say: ‘How the mighty scepter, the splendid rod, is broken!’
18. O daughter dwelling in Dibon come down from your glory and sit in thirst! For Moab’s destroyer has come to you. He has devastated your strongholds.
19. O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the road and watch— ask him fleeing and her escaping, ‘What has happened?’
20. Moab is disgraced, indeed shattered. Wail and shriek! Declare by the Arnon, Moab is ruined!
21. Judgment has come on the tableland —on Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,