Because in the night ^(B)Ar of ^(C)Moab is laid waste
And destroyed,
Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste
And destroyed,
² He has gone up to the ^[b]temple and Dibon,
To the high places to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;
^(D)On all their heads will be baldness,
And every beard cut off.
³ In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;
On the tops of their houses
And in their streets
Everyone will wail, ^(E)weeping bitterly.
⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,
Their voice shall be heard as far as ^(F)Jahaz;
Therefore the ^[c]armed soldiers of Moab will cry out;
His life will be burdensome to him.

⁵ “My^(G) heart will cry out for Moab;
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar,
Like ^[d]a three-year-old heifer.
For ^(H)by the Ascent of Luhith
They will go up with weeping;
For in the way of Horonaim
They will raise up a cry of destruction,
⁶ For the waters ^(I)of Nimrim will be desolate,
For the green grass has withered away;
The grass fails, there is nothing green.
⁷ Therefore the abundance they have gained,
And what they have laid up,
They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.
⁸ For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab,
Its wailing to Eglaim
And its wailing to Beer Elim.
⁹ For the waters of ^[e]Dimon will be full of blood;
Because I will bring more upon Dimon,
^(J)Lions upon him who escapes from Moab,
And on the remnant of the land.”

³ “Take counsel, execute judgment;
Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day;
Hide the outcasts,
Do not betray him who escapes.
⁴ Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab;
Be a shelter to them from the face of the ^[g]spoiler.
For the extortioner is at an end,
Devastation ceases,
The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
⁵ In mercy ^(O)the throne will be established;
And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
^(P)Judging and seeking justice and hastening ^(Q)righteousness.”

⁶ We have heard of the ^(R)pride of Moab—
He is very proud—
Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;
^(S)But his ^[h]lies shall not be so.
⁷ Therefore Moab shall ^(T)wail for Moab;
Everyone shall wail.
For the foundations ^(U)of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;
Surely they are stricken.

⁸ For ^(V)the fields of Heshbon languish,
And ^(W)the vine of Sibmah;
The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants,
Which have reached to Jazer
And wandered through the wilderness.
Her branches are stretched out,
They are gone over the ^(X)sea.
⁹ Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah,
With the weeping of Jazer;
I will drench you with my tears,
^(Y)O Heshbon and Elealeh;
For ^[i]battle cries have fallen
Over your summer fruits and your harvest.

^10 (Z)Gladness is taken away,
And joy from the plentiful field;
In the vineyards there will be no singing,
Nor will there be shouting;
No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;
I have made their shouting cease.
¹¹ Therefore ^(AA)my ^[j]heart shall resound like a harp for Moab,
And my inner being for ^[k]Kir Heres.

¹² And it shall come to pass,
When it is seen that Moab is weary on ^(AB)the high place,
That he will come to his sanctuary to pray;
But he will not prevail.

²⁴ Then they despised ^(A)the pleasant land;
They ^(B)did not believe His word,
^25 (C)But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the Lord.
^26 (D)Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
^(E)To ^[a]overthrow them in the wilderness,
^27 (F)To ^[b]overthrow their descendants among the ^[c]nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.

^28 (G)They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices ^[d]made to the dead.
²⁹ Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
^30 (H)Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
³¹ And that was accounted to him ^(I)for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

^8 (A)Do not go hastily to ^[a]court;
For what will you do in the end,
When your neighbor has put you to shame?
^9 (B)Debate your case with your neighbor,
And do not disclose the secret to another;
¹⁰ Lest he who hears it expose your shame,
And ^[b]your reputation be ruined.