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,
22. on Dibon, Nebo, Beth-diblathaim,
23. on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, Beth-meon,
24. on Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.
25. The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken!” It is a declaration of Adonai.
26. “Make him drunk, for he exalted himself against Adonai. So Moab will wallow in his vomit and also become a laughingstock.
27. After all, Israel is a laughingstock to you. Was he ever found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him, you should wag the head?