[1] Send you the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the
wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. [2] For it shall be
that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of
Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. [3] Give counsel, execute justice; make
your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts;
don`t betray the fugitive. [4] Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab,
be you a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner
is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are consumed out
of the land. [5] A throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one
shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking
justice, and swift to do righteousness. [6] We have heard of the pride of
Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and
his wrath; his boastings are nothing. [7] Therefore shall Moab wail for
Moab, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall you
mourn, utterly stricken. [8] For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the
vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice
branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the
wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. [9]
Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I
will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer
fruits and on your harvest the [battle] shout is fallen. [10] Gladness is
taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there
shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in
the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease. [11] Why my heart
sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir-heres. [12] It
shall happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the
high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not
prevail. [13] This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time
past. [14] But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the
years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with
all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no
account.
