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| 1About Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Woe to Nebo, because it is about to be destroyed; Kiriathaim will be put to shame; it will be taken captive. The fortress will be put to shame and dismayed! | 1The LORD God of Israel who rules over all spoke about Moab. "Sure to be judged is Nebo! Indeed, it will be destroyed! Kiriathaim will suffer disgrace. It will be captured! Its fortress will suffer disgrace. It will be torn down! |
| 2There is no longer praise for Moab; they plan harm against her in Heshbon: Come, let's cut her off from nationhood. Also, Madmen, you will be silenced; the sword will pursue you. | 2People will not praise Moab any more. The enemy will capture Heshbon and plot how to destroy Moab, saying, 'Come, let's put an end to that nation!' City of Madmen, you will also be destroyed. A destructive army will march against you. |
| 3A voice cries out from Horonaim, "devastation and great disaster!" | 3Cries of anguish will arise in Horonaim, 'Oh, the ruin and great destruction!' |
| 4Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out. | 4"Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress. |
| 5For on the Ascent to Luhith they will be weeping continually, and on the descent to Horonaim will be heard cries of distress over the destruction: | 5Indeed they will climb the slopes of Luhith, weeping continually as they go. For on the road down to Horonaim they will hear the cries of distress over the destruction. |
| 6Flee! Save your lives! Be like a juniper bush in the wilderness. | 6They will hear, 'Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!' |
| 7Because you trust in your works and treasures, you will be captured also. Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials. | 7"Moab, you trust in the things you do and in your riches. So you too will be conquered. Your god Chemosh will go into exile along with his priests and his officials. |
| 8The destroyer will move against every town; not one town will escape. The valley will perish, and the plain will be annihilated, as the LORD has said. | 8The destroyer will come against every town. Not one town will escape. The towns in the valley will be destroyed. The cities on the high plain will be laid waste. I, the LORD, have spoken! |
| 9Make Moab a salt marsh, for she will run away; her towns will become a desolation, without inhabitant. | 9Set up a gravestone for Moab, for it will certainly be laid in ruins! Its cities will be laid waste and become uninhabited." |
| 10The one who does the LORD's business deceitfully is cursed, and the one who withholds his sword from bloodshed is cursed. | 10A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the LORD's work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction! |
| 11Moab has been left quiet since his youth, settled like wine on its dregs. He hasn't been poured from one container to another or gone into exile. So his taste has remained the same, and his aroma hasn't changed. | 11"From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed. It has never been taken into exile. Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs, never poured out from one jar to another. They are like wine which tastes like it always did, whose aroma has remained unchanged. |
| 12Therefore look, the days are coming-- this is the LORD's declaration-- when I will send those to him, who will pour him out. They will empty his containers and smash his jars. | 12But the time is coming when I will send men against Moab who will empty it out. They will empty the towns of their people, then will lay those towns in ruins. I, the LORD, affirm it! |
| 13Moab will be put to shame because of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was put to shame because of Bethel that they trusted in. | 13The people of Moab will be disappointed by their god Chemosh. They will be as disappointed as the people of Israel were when they put their trust in the calf god at Bethel. |
| 14How can you say, "We are warriors-- mighty men ready for battle"? | 14How can you men of Moab say, 'We are heroes, men who are mighty in battle?' |
| 15The destroyer of Moab and its towns has come up, and the best of its young men have gone down to slaughter. This is the King's declaration; Yahweh of Hosts is His name. | 15Moab will be destroyed. Its towns will be invaded. Its finest young men will be slaughtered. I, the King, the LORD who rules over all, affirm it! |
| 16Moab's calamity is near at hand; his disaster is rushing swiftly. | 16Moab's destruction is at hand. Disaster will come on it quickly. |
| 17Mourn for him, all you surrounding nations, everyone who knows his name. Say: How the mighty scepter is shattered, the glorious staff! | 17Mourn for that nation, all you nations living around it, all of you nations that know of its fame. Mourn and say, 'Alas, its powerful influence has been broken! Its glory and power have been done away!' |
| 18Come down from glory; sit on parched ground, resident of the daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses. | 18Come down from your place of honor; sit on the dry ground, you who live in Dibon. For the one who will destroy Moab will attack you; he will destroy your fortifications. |
| 19Stand by the highway and look, resident of Aroer! Ask him who is fleeing or her who is escaping: What happened? | 19You who live in Aroer, stand by the road and watch. Question the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping. Ask them, 'What has happened?' |
| 20Moab is put to shame, indeed dismayed. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed. | 20They will answer, 'Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen! Wail and cry out in mourning! Announce along the Arnon River that Moab has been destroyed.' |
| 21"Judgment has come to the land of the plateau--to Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath, | 21"Judgment will come on the cities on the high plain: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath, |
| 22Dibon, Nebo, Beth-diblathaim, | 22on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth Diblathaim, |
| 23Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, Beth-meon, | 23on Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon, |
| 24Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of the land of Moab, those far and near. | 24on Kerioth and Bozrah. It will come on all the towns of Moab, both far and near. |
| 25Moab's horn is chopped off; his arm is shattered." This is the LORD's declaration. | 25Moab's might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. I, the LORD, affirm it! |
| 26"Make him drunk, because he has exalted himself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock. | 26"Moab has vaunted itself against me. So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath until he splashes around in his own vomit, until others treat him as a laughingstock. |
| 27Wasn't Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head." | 27For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, that you shook your head in contempt every time you talked about them? |
| 28Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs, residents of Moab! Be like a dove that nests inside the mouth of a cave. | 28Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab. Go and live in the cliffs. Be like a dove that makes its nest high on the sides of a ravine. |
| 29We have heard of Moab's pride, great pride, indeed-- his insolence, arrogance, pride, and haughty heart. | 29I have heard how proud the people of Moab are, I know how haughty they are. I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are, what a high opinion they have of themselves. |
| 30I know his outburst. This is the LORD's declaration. It is empty. His boast is empty. | 30I, the LORD, affirm that I know how arrogant they are. But their pride is ill-founded. Their boastings will prove to be false. |
| 31Therefore, I will wail over Moab. I will cry out for Moab, all of it; he will moan for the men of Kir-heres. | 31So I will weep with sorrow for Moab. I will cry out in sadness for all of Moab. I will moan for the people of Kir Heres. |
| 32I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah, with more than the weeping for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they have reached to the sea and to Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruit and grape harvest. | 32I will weep for the grapevines of Sibmah just like the town of Jazer weeps over them. Their branches once spread as far as the Dead Sea. They reached as far as the town of Jazer. The destroyer will ravage her fig, date, and grape crops. |
| 33Joy and celebration are taken from the fertile field and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses; no one will tread with shouts of joy. The shouting is not a shout of joy. | 33Joy and gladness will disappear from the fruitful land of Moab. I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses. No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy. The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers, not the shouts of those making wine. |
| 34"There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices as far as Jahaz--from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah--because even the waters of Nimrim have become desolate. | 34Cries of anguish raised from Heshbon and Elealeh will be sounded as far as Jahaz. They will be sounded from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah. For even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up. |
| 35In Moab, I will stop"--this is the LORD's declaration--"the one who offers sacrifices on the high place and burns incense to his gods. | 35I will put an end in Moab to those who make offerings at her places of worship. I will put an end to those who sacrifice to other gods. I, the LORD, affirm it! |
| 36Therefore, My heart moans like flutes for Moab, and My heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. And therefore, the wealth he has gained has perished. | 36So my heart moans for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song. Yes, like a flute playing a funeral song, my heart moans for the people of Kir Heres. For the wealth they have gained will perish. |
| 37Indeed, every head is bald and every beard clipped; on every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist. | 37For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth. |
| 38On all the rooftops of Moab and in her public squares, everyone is mourning because I have shattered Moab like a jar no one wants." This is the LORD's declaration. | 38On all the housetops in Moab and in all its public squares there will be nothing but mourning. For I will break Moab like an unwanted jar. I, the LORD, affirm it! |
| 39"How broken it is! They wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is ashamed. Moab will become a laughingstock and a shock to all those around him." | 39Oh, how shattered Moab will be! Oh, how her people will wail! Oh, how she will turn away in shame! Moab will become an object of ridicule, a terrifying sight to all the nations that surround her." |
| 40For this is what the LORD says: He will swoop down like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab. | 40For the LORD says, "Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings a nation will swoop down on Moab. |
| 41The towns have been captured, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab's warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions. | 41Her towns will be captured. Her fortresses will be taken. At that time the soldiers of Moab will be frightened like a woman in labor. |
| 42Moab will be destroyed as a people because he has exalted himself against the LORD. | 42Moab will be destroyed and no longer be a nation, because she has vaunted herself against the LORD. |
| 43Panic, pit, and trap await you, resident of Moab. This is the LORD's declaration. | 43Terror, pits, and traps are in store for the people who live in Moab. I, the LORD, affirm it! |
| 44He who flees from the panic will fall in the pit, and he who climbs from the pit will be captured in the trap, for I will bring against Moab the year of their punishment. This is the LORD's declaration. | 44Anyone who flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap. For the time is coming when I will punish the people of Moab. I, the LORD, affirm it! |
| 45Those who flee will stand exhausted in Heshbon's shadow because fire has come out from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It will devour Moab's forehead and the skull of the noisemakers. | 45In the shadows of the walls of Heshbon those trying to escape will stand helpless. For a fire will burst forth from Heshbon. Flames will shoot out from the former territory of Sihon. They will burn the foreheads of the people of Moab, the skulls of those war-loving people. |
| 46Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished because your sons have been taken captive and your daughters have gone into captivity. | 46Moab, you are doomed! You people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed. Your sons will be taken away captive. Your daughters will be carried away into exile. |
| 47Yet, I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the last days. This is the LORD's declaration. The judgment on Moab ends here. | 47Yet in days to come I will reverse Moab's ill fortune." says the LORD. The judgment against Moab ends here. |
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