1Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
2There shall be no more praise of Moab:
3A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim,
4Moab is destroyed;
5For in the going up of Luhith
6Flee, save your lives,
7For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures,
8And the spoiler shall come upon every city,
9Give wings unto Moab,
10Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,
11Moab hath been at ease from his youth,
12Therefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh,
14How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
15Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities,
16The calamity of Moab is near to come,
17All ye that are about him, bemoan him;
18Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon,
19O inhabitant of Aroer,
20Moab is confounded; for it is broken down:
21And judgment is come upon the plain country;
22And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,
23And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
24And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah,
25The horn of Moab is cut off,
26Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the Lord:
27For was not Israel a derision unto thee?
28O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
29We have heard the pride of Moab; he is exceeding proud:
30I know his wrath, saith the Lord; but it shall not be so;
31Therefore will I howl for Moab,
32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer:
33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab;
34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh,
35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places,
36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes,
37For every head shall be bald,
38There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof:
39They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down!
40For thus saith the Lord;
41Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised,
42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,
43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee,
44He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit;
45They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force:
46Woe be unto thee, O Moab!
47Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab