1Of Moab. The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:
2The praise of Moab is no more.
3The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
4Moab is destroyed.
5For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping.
6Flee! Save your lives!
7For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,
8The destroyer will come on every city,
9Give wings to Moab,
10“Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD negligently;
11“Moab has been at ease from his youth,
12Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD,
13Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh,
14“How do you say, ‘We are mighty men,
15Moab is laid waste,
16“The calamity of Moab is near to come,
17All you who are around him, bemoan him;
18“You daughter who dwells in Dibon,
19Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch.
20Moab is disappointed;
21Judgement has come on the plain country—
22on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,
23on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,
24on Kerioth, on Bozrah,
25The horn of Moab is cut off,
26“Make him drunk,
27For wasn’t Israel a derision to you?
28You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock.
29“We have heard of the pride of Moab.
30I know his wrath,” says the LORD, “that it is nothing;
31Therefore I will wail for Moab.
32With more than the weeping of Jazer
33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field
34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh,
35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says the LORD,
36Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes,
37For every head is bald,
38On all the housetops of Moab,
39“How it is broken down!
40For the LORD says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle,
41Kerioth is taken,
42Moab will be destroyed from being a people,
43Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you,
44“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;
45“Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;
46Woe to you, O Moab!
47“Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,”