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1Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:[#vv 22, 23 ; Num 32.37; Isa 15.2]
Alas for Nebo, it is laid waste!
Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is taken;
the fortress is put to shame and broken down;
2the renown of Moab is no more.[#Isa 15.4; 16.14; Jer 49.3]
In Heshbon they planned evil against her:
“Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!”
You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
the sword shall pursue you.
3Listen! A cry goes up from Horonaim:[#vv 5, 34 ; Isa 15.5]
“Desolation and great destruction!”
4“Moab is destroyed!”
her little ones cry out.
5For at the ascent of Luhith[#Isa 15.5]
they go up weeping bitterly;
for at the descent of Horonaim
they have heard the distressing cry of anguish.
6Flee! Save yourselves![#Jer 17.6; 51.6]
Be like a wild ass in the desert!
7Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures,[#Num 21.29; 1 Kings 11.33; Jer 9.23; 49.3; #48.7 Gk: Heb works]
you also shall be taken;
Chemosh shall go out into exile,
with his priests and his attendants.
8The destroyer shall come upon every town,[#Jer 6.26]
and no town shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
and the plain shall be destroyed,
as the Lord has spoken.
9Set aside salt for Moab,[#Isa 16.2; Jer 44.22]
for she will surely fall;
her towns shall become a desolation,
with no inhabitant in them.
10Accursed is the one who is slack in doing the work of the Lord , and accursed is the one who keeps back the sword from bloodshed.[#1 Sam 15.3, 9; 1 Kings 20.42; Jer 11.3; 47.6, 7]
11Moab has been at ease from his youth,[#Jer 22.21; Nah 2.2; Zeph 1.12; Zech 1.15]
settled like wine on its dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
nor has he gone into exile;
therefore his flavor has remained,
and his aroma is unspoiled.
12Therefore, the time is surely coming, says the Lord , when I shall send to him decanters to decant him and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces.
13Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.[#v 39; 1 Kings 12.29; Isa 45.16; Hos 10.6]
14How can you say, “We are heroes[#Isa 10.13–16]
and mighty warriors”?
15Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up,[#Jer 46.18; 50.27]
and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter,
says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
16The calamity of Moab is near at hand,[#Isa 13.22]
and his doom approaches swiftly.
17Mourn over him, all you his neighbors,[#Isa 14.5; Jer 9.17–20]
and all who know his name;
say, “How the mighty scepter is broken,
the glorious staff!”
18Come down from glory[#v 8 ; Isa 47.1; Jer 46.19]
and sit on the parched ground,
enthroned daughter Dibon!
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
he has destroyed your strongholds.
19Stand by the road and watch,[#Deut 2.36; 1 Sam 4.13, 16]
you inhabitant of Aroer!
Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping;
say, “What has happened?”
20Moab is put to shame, for it is broken down;[#Num 21.13; Isa 16.7]
wail and cry!
Tell it by the Arnon
that Moab is laid waste.
21Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,
22and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
23and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
24and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.[#Am 2.2]
25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord .[#Ps 75.10; Ezek 30.21]
26Make him drunk because he magnified himself against the Lord ; let Moab wallow in his vomit; he, too, shall become a laughingstock.[#Jer 25.15, 27]
27Israel was a laughingstock for you, though he was not caught among thieves, but whenever you spoke of him you shook your head![#Jer 2.26; 18.16; Zeph 2.8]
28Leave the towns, and live on the rock,[#Ps 55.6, 7; Song 2.14; Jer 49.16]
O inhabitants of Moab!
Be like the dove that nests
on the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
29We have heard of the pride of Moab—[#Ps 138.6; Isa 16.6; Zeph 2.8]
he is very proud—
of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,
and the haughtiness of his heart.
30I myself know his insolence, says the Lord ;[#Isa 16.6; 37.28]
his boasts are false;
his deeds are false.
31Therefore I wail for Moab;[#Isa 15.5; 16.7, 11]
I cry out for all Moab;
for the people of Kir-heres I mourn.
32More than for Jazer I weep for you,[#Num 21.32; Isa 16.8, 9]
O vine of Sibmah!
Your branches crossed over the sea,
reached as far as Jazer;
upon your summer fruits and your vintage
the destroyer has fallen.
33Gladness and joy have been taken away[#Isa 5.10; 16.10; Joel 1.12; Hag 2.16]
from the fruitful land of Moab;
I have stopped the wine from the winepresses;
no one treads them with shouts of joy;
the shouting is not the shout of joy.
34From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For even the waters of Nimrim have become desolate.[#Isa 15.4–6]
35And I will bring to an end in Moab, says the Lord , those who offer sacrifice at a high place and make offerings to their gods.[#Isa 15.2; 16.12; Jer 7.9; 11.13]
36Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the people of Kir-heres, for the riches they gained have perished.[#Isa 15.7; 16.11]
37For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.[#Isa 15.2, 3; Jer 47.5]
38On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel that no one wants, says the Lord .[#Jer 22.28; 25.34]
39How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all his neighbors.[#Ezek 26.16]
40For thus says the Lord :[#Isa 8.8; Jer 49.22; Dan 7.4; Hos 8.1]
Look, he shall swoop down like an eagle
and spread his wings against Moab;
41the towns shall be taken[#Isa 21.3; Jer 30.6; 49.22, 24; Mic 4.9; #48.41 Or Kerioth]
and the strongholds seized.
The hearts of the warriors of Moab, on that day,
shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.
42Moab shall be destroyed as a people,[#v 26 ; Ps 83.4; Isa 37.23]
because he magnified himself against the Lord .
43Terror, pit, and trap[#Isa 24.17, 18; Lam 3.47]
are before you, O inhabitants of Moab! says the Lord .
44Everyone who flees from the terror[#1 Kings 19.17; Jer 11.23; 46.21]
shall fall into the pit,
and everyone who climbs out of the pit
shall be caught in the trap.
For I will bring these things upon Moab
in the year of their punishment, says the Lord .
45In the shadow of Heshbon[#Num 21.21, 26, 28, 29; 24.17]
fugitives stop exhausted,
for a fire has gone out from Heshbon,
a flame from the house of Sihon;
it has destroyed the forehead of Moab,
the scalp of the people of tumult.
46Woe to you, O Moab![#v 7 ; Num 21.29]
The people of Chemosh have perished,
for your sons have been taken captive
and your daughters into captivity.
47Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab[#Jer 49.6, 39]
in the latter days, says the Lord .
Thus far is the judgment on Moab.