1.
Send lambs of the ruler of the land from Sela Midbarah to the mountain of the community of Zion.
2.
And it shall be like a wandering bird, driven from the nest; shall the villages of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.
3.
Bring counsel, deliberate judgment, make like the night your shadow at noon; conceal the exiles, reveal not the wanderer.
4.
May My exiles sojourn among you, Moab. Become a hiding place for them from before the plunderer, for the milking has come to an end; the udders have vanished; the tramplers have ceased from the earth.
5.
And the throne shall be established through loving- kindness, and there shall sit thereon in truth in the tent of David, one who judges and demands justice and performs righteousness.
6.
We heard the pride of Moab, they have become very proud; their pride and their haughtiness and their conception are improper, [as are] their branches.
7.
Therefore, Moab shall wail for Moab; they shall all wail; for the walls of Kir-hareseth shall you lament, but brokenhearted.
8.
For the grain fields of Heshbon have become desolate; the vine of Sibmah, the chiefs of nations have broken its saplings; they reached as far as Jazer; they strayed to the desert; its tendrils spread out, crossed the sea.
9.
Therefore, I will weep with the weeping of Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will be sated over you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh, for over your figs and over your harvest a shout has fallen.
10.
And joy and gladness shall be terminated from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards there shall be neither song nor shout; no treader shall tread wine into the pits; the shout have I abolished.
11.
Therefore, my bowels shall moan for Moab like a harp, and my innards for Kir-heres.
12.
And it shall come to pass, when it shall appear that Moab has wearied [of waging war] on the high place, and he shall enter his sanctuary to pray and he shall not be able.
13.
This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab long ago.
14.
And now, the Lord has spoken saying, "In three years like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be debased, among all the great multitude, and the remnant shall be very few, not many."
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