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Chapter 48
1 Against Moab thus said the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and has trembled.
2 There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shall you in silence hold your peace, and the sword shall follow you.
3 A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.
4 Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.
5 For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction.
6 Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.
7 For because you have trusted in your bulwarks, and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.
8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, for the Lord has spoken:
9 Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.
10 Cursed be he that does the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholds his sword from blood.
11 Moab has been fruitful from his youth, and has rested upon his lees: and has not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor has gone into captivity: therefore his taste has remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
12 Therefore behold the days come, said the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another.
13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.
14 How do you say: We are valiant, and stout men in battle?
15 Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: said the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
16 The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly.
17 Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you that know his name, say: How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod?
18 Come down from your glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to you, he has destroyed your bulwarks.
19 Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of him that flees: and say to him that has escaped: What Is done?
20 Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry, tell ye it in Amen, that Moab is wasted.
21 And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon, and upon Jasa, and upon Mephaath.
22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim,
23 And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon,
24 And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, said the Lord.
26 Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
27 For Israel has been a derision unto you: as though you had found him amongst thieves: for your words therefore, which you have spoken against him, you shall be led away captive.
28 Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab: and be ye like the dove that makes her nest in the mouth of the hole in the highest place.
29 We have heard the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his haughtiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the loftiness of his heart.
30 I know, said the Lord, his boasting, and that the strength thereof is not according to it, neither has it endeavoured to do according as it was able.
31 Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to all Moab, for the men of the brick wall that mourn.
32 O vineyard of Sabama, I will weep for you, with the mourning of Jazer: your branches are gone over the sea, they are come even to the sea of Jazer: the robber has rushed in upon your harvest and your vintage.
33 Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the land of Moab, and I have taken away the wine out of the presses: the treader of the grapes shall not sing the accustomed cheerful tune.
34 From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale, and to Jasa, they have uttered their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, as a heifer of three years old: the waters also of Nemrim shall be very bad.
35 And I will take away from Moab, said the Lord, him that offers in the high places, and that sacrifices to his gods.
36 Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes: and my heart a sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he has done more than he could, therefore they have perished.
37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be haircloth.
38 Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, said the Lord.
39 How is it overthrown, and they have howled! How has Moab bowed down the neck, and is confounded ! And Moab shall be a derision, and an example to all round about him.
40 Thus said the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall stretch forth his wings to Moab.
41 Carioth is taken, and the strong holds are won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.
42 And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he has gloried against the Lord.
43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, said the Lord.
44 He that shall flee from the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall get up out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon Moab the year of their visitation, said the Lord.
45 They that fled from the snare stood in the shadow of Hesebon: but there came a fire out of Kesebon, and a flame out of the midst of Seen, and it shall devour part of Moab, and the crown of the head of the children of tumult.#*
46 Woe to you, Moab, you have perished, O people of Chamos: for your sons, and your daughters are taken captives.
47 And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last days, said the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab.