¹Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness , to the mountain of the daughter of Zion .

²For it will be that as wandering birds , as a scattered nest , so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

³Give counsel ! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday ! Hide the outcasts ! Don’t betray the fugitive !

⁴Let my outcasts dwell with you ! As for Moab , be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer . For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land .

⁵A throne will be established in loving kindness . One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David , judging , seeking justice , and swift to do righteousness .

⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab , that he is very proud ; even of his arrogance , his pride , and his wrath . His boastings are nothing .

⁷Therefore Moab will wail for Moab . Everyone will wail . You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken .

⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah . The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches , which reached even to Jazer , which wandered into the wilderness . Its shoots were spread abroad . They passed over the sea .

⁹Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah . I will water you with my tears , Heshbon , and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen .

¹⁰Gladness is taken away , and joy out of the fruitful field ; and in the vineyards there will be no singing , neither joyful noise . Nobody will tread out wine in the presses . I have made the shouting stop .

¹¹Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab , and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

¹²It will happen that when Moab presents himself , when he wearies himself on the high place , and comes to his sanctuary to pray , that he will not prevail .

¹³This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past.

¹⁴But now the LORD has spoken , saying , “Within three years , as a worker bound by contract would count them , the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude ; and the remnant will be very small and feeble .”