27 Therefore the poets[a] say:

Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt;
let the city of Sihon be restored.[b]
28 For fire came out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It consumed Ar of Moab,
the lords of[c] Arnon’s heights.
29 Woe to you, Moab!
You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh!(A)
He gave up his sons as refugees,
and his daughters into captivity
to Sihon the Amorite king.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:27 Lit ones who speak proverbs
  2. Numbers 21:27 Or firmly founded
  3. Numbers 21:28 LXX reads Moab, and swallowed

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