¹Send the lamb

to the ruler of the land

from Sela by way of the wilderness,

to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

²For it shall be that as a wandering bird

cast out of the nest,

so the daughters of Moab shall be

at the fords of Arnon.

³“Take counsel,

execute justice,

make your shadow as the night

at the height of noon.

Hide the outcasts,

do not betray the fugitive.

⁴Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab;

be a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer.”

For the extortioner has come to an end;

the destroyer ceases;

the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

⁵In mercy the throne shall be established;[#Da 7:14; Mic 4:7]

and one who judges and seeks justice

and is diligent in righteousness

shall sit on it in truth

in the tabernacle of David, judging.

⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab;[#Jer 48:29–30; Am 2:1]

he is very proud,

even of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;

but his lies shall not be so.

⁷Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab;[#Jer 48:20]

everyone shall wail.

For the loss of raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;

surely they are destroyed.

⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish,[#Isa 15:4]

and the vine of Sibmah;

the lords of the nations

have broken down its choice plants;

they have come as far as Jazer

and wandered through the wilderness.

Her branches are stretched out;

they are passed over the sea.

⁹Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer,

the vine of Sibmah;

I will water you with my tears,

O Heshbon and Elealeh.

For the shouting for your summer fruits

and for your harvest has fallen away.

¹⁰Gladness and joy are taken away out of the plentiful field,[#Jer 48:33]

and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,

nor shall there be shouting;

the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses.

I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

¹¹Therefore my heart shall sound like a harp for Moab,[#Isa 15:5]

and my inward parts for Kir Hareseth.

¹²When it is seen that Moab

is weary on the high place,

he shall come to his sanctuary to pray;

but he shall not prevail.

¹³This is the word that the Lord has spoken earlier concerning Moab.

¹⁴But now the Lord has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt with all his great population, and his remnant shall be very small and feeble.[#Isa 21:16]