27. For wasn’t Israel a derision to you?Was he found among thieves?For as often as you speak of him,you shake your head.
28. You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock.Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
29. “We have heard of the pride of Moab.He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride,his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.
30. I know his wrath,” says the Lord, “that it is nothing;his boastings have done nothing.
31. Therefore I will wail for Moab.Yes, I will cry out for all Moab.They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
32. With more than the weeping of JazerI will weep for you, vine of Sibmah.Your branches passed over the sea.They reached even to the sea of Jazer.The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruitsand on your vintage.
33. Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful fieldand from the land of Moab.I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses.No one will tread with shouting.The shouting will be no shouting.
34. From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh,even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice,from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah;for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.
35. Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says the Lord,“him who offers in the high place,and him who burns incense to his gods.
36. Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes,and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres.Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.
37. For every head is bald,and every beard clipped.There are cuttings on all the hands,and sackcloth on the waist.
38. On all the housetops of Moab,and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere;for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says the Lord.
39. “How it is broken down!How they wail!How Moab has turned the back with shame!So will Moab become a derisionand a terror to all who are around him.”
40. For the Lord says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle,and will spread out his wings against Moab.
41. Kerioth is taken,and the strongholds are seized.The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that daywill be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42. Moab will be destroyed from being a people,because he has magnified himself against the Lord.
43. Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you,inhabitant of Moab,” says the Lord.
44. “He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare:for I will bring on him, even on Moab,the year of their visitation,” says the Lord.
45. “Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,and a flame from the middle of Sihon,and has devoured the corner of Moab,and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.