1 For Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo, for it is devastated! Kiriathaim is shamed, it is taken; the high fortress is shamed and dismayed.
2 There is no more praise for Moab; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, Madmen, will be silenced; after you the sword will go.
3 Hark! A cry from Horonaim: 'Ruin and great shattering!'
4 Moab is shattered; her little ones make their cry heard.
5 For up the ascent of Luhith they go with weeping upon weeping; for on the way down to Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of shattering.
6 Flee, save your lives! Become like a bush in the wilderness!
7 For because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you too will be taken; and Chemosh will go out into exile, his priests and his officials together.
8 The destroyer will come against every city, and no city will escape; the valley will perish and the tableland be ruined, as the LORD has said.
9 Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her towns will become a waste, with no one living in them.
10 Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
11 Moab has been at ease since his youth; he has settled on his dregs and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste stays in him, and his scent has not changed.
12 Therefore the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send him men who tilt jars, and they will tilt him and empty his vessels and smash their jars.
13 And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
14 How do you say, 'We are mighty men, valiant men for war'?
15 Moab is devastated, his towns have gone up in smoke, and the pick of his young men have gone down to the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
16 The disaster of Moab is near to come, and his evil hurries very fast.
17 Grieve for him, all who are around him, all who know his name; say, 'How the strong staff is broken, the rod of splendor!'
18 Come down from glory and sit in thirst, you who dwell as the daughter of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has ruined your fortresses.
19 Stand by the road and watch, you who dwell in Aroer! Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping; say, 'What has happened?'
20 Moab is shamed, for it is shattered; howl and cry out! Tell it by the Arnon that Moab is devastated.
21 Judgment has come to the land of the tableland, to Holon, to Jahzah and to Mephaath,
22 to Dibon, to Nebo and to Beth-diblathaim,
23 to Kiriathaim, to Beth-gamul and to Beth-meon,
24 to Kerioth, to Bozrah, and to all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.
25 The horn of Moab is hacked off, and his arm is broken, declares the LORD.
26 Make him drunk, for he has made himself great against the LORD; let Moab splash in his vomit, and he too will become a laughingstock.
27 Was Israel not a laughingstock to you? Was he caught among thieves, that every time you spoke of him you would shake your head?
28 Abandon the towns and dwell among the crags, inhabitants of Moab! Be like a dove that nests on the far side of the mouth of a chasm.
29 We have heard of Moab's pride, very proud he is, his loftiness and his pride and his arrogance and the haughtiness of his heart.
30 I myself know his fury, declares the LORD; his idle talk is not right; what they have done is not right.
31 That is why I howl for Moab, for all Moab I cry out; over the men of Kir-heres one groans.
32 With more than the weeping for Jazer I weep for you, vine of Sibmah! Your tendrils passed over the sea, they reached to the sea of Jazer; on your summer fruit and your vintage a destroyer has fallen.
33 Joy and gladness are taken away from the garden land, from the land of Moab; I have stopped the wine from the vats; no one treads with shouting; the shout is no shout.
34 From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh, to Jahaz they have let out their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have become desolate.
35 I will put an end in Moab, declares the LORD, to the one who goes up to the high place and makes offerings to his gods.
36 So my heart wails for Moab like flutes, my heart wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres; so the abundance he made has perished.
37 For every head is bald and every beard clipped; on all hands are cuts, and on the loins sackcloth.
38 On all the roofs of Moab and in its squares, everywhere there is mourning; for I have broken Moab like a vessel no one cares for, declares the LORD.
39 How it is shattered! Howl! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become a laughingstock and a terror to all around him."
40 For thus says the LORD: "See, like an eagle he will swoop and spread out his wings against Moab.
41 Kerioth is captured, the strongholds are seized; and the heart of Moab's warriors on that day will be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42 Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he made himself great against the LORD.
43 Terror and pit and trap are upon you, inhabitant of Moab, declares the LORD.
44 Whoever flees from the terror will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap; for I will bring upon her, upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.
45 In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stand, powerless; for fire has gone forth from Heshbon, a flame from the midst of Sihon; it consumes the brow of Moab, the crown of the sons of uproar.
46 Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are lost; for your sons are taken into captivity, and your daughters into exile.
47 But I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the end of days, declares the LORD." Up to here is the judgment of Moab.