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The pronouncement concerning ^(C1)Moab: Certainly in a night ^(C2)Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined; Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

^(F1)The people have gone up to the ^(F2)temple and to ^(C1)Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone's head is ^(C2)bald and every beard is cut off.

In their streets they have put on ^(C1)sackcloth; ^(C2)On their housetops and in their public squares Everyone is wailing, ^(F1)(C3)overcome with weeping.

^(C1)Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out, Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz; Therefore the ^(F1)armed men of Moab cry aloud; His soul trembles within him.

My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are as far as ^(C1)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah, For they go up the ^(C2)ascent of Luhith weeping; Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress ^(C3)over their collapse.

For the ^(C1)waters of Nimrim are ^(F1)desolate. Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died, There is ^(C2)no greenery.

Therefore the ^(C1)abundance which they have acquired and stored up, They carry it off over the brook of ^(F1)Arabim.

For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab, Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its howling to Beer-elim.

For the waters of Dimon are full of ^(F1)blood; I will certainly bring added woes upon Dimon, A ^(C1)lion upon the fugitives of Moab and the remnant of the land.

^(C1)Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From ^(F1)(C2)Sela by way of the wilderness to the ^(C3)mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Then, like ^(C1)fluttering birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of ^(C2)Moab will be at the crossing places of the ^(C3)Arnon.

"^(F1)Give us advice, make a decision; ^(F2)Cast your ^(C1)shadow like night ^(F3)at high noon; ^(C2)Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

-"Let the ^(F1)outcasts of Moab stay with you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer." For the oppressor has come to an end, destruction has ceased, ^(C1)Oppressors have been removed from the land.

A ^(C1)throne will be established in faithfulness, And a judge will sit on it in trustworthiness in the tent of ^(C2)David; Moreover, he will seek justice, And be prompt in righteousness.

^(C1)We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; ^(C2)His idle boasts are ^(F1)false.

Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail. You will moan for the ^(C1)raisin cakes of ^(C2)Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.

For the fields of ^(C1)Heshbon have ^(F1)withered, the vines of ^(C2)Sibmah as well; The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts; ^(C3)Its ^(F2)tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

Therefore I will ^(C1)weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, ^(C2)Heshbon and Elealeh; For the shouting over your ^(C3)summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

^(C1)Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field; In the ^(C2)vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting, No ^(C3)treader treads out wine in the presses, For I have made the shouting to cease.

Therefore my ^(F1)(C1)inner being sounds like a harp for Moab. And my ^(F2)heart for Kir-hareseth.

So it will come about when Moab ^(C1)presents himself, When he ^(C2)tires himself upon his ^(C3)high place And comes to his sanctuary to pray, That he will not prevail.

This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

But now the LORD has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as ^(F1)(C1)a hired worker would count them, the glory of ^(C2)Moab will become contemptible along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and ^(F2)impotent."