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Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;Therefore the armed men of Moab make a loud shout;His soul trembles within him.

We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;Even of his lofty pride, pride, and fury;His idle boasts are false.

So it will be when Moab appears,When he wearies himself upon his high placeAnd comes to his sanctuary to pray,That he will not prevail.

But now Yahweh speaks, saying, "Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be dishonored along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and not mighty."

Now it will be in that day, that the glory of Jacob will wane,And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

And it will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain,As his arm harvests the ears of grain,Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grainIn the valley of Rephaim.

In that day man will have regard for his MakerAnd his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,Even the Asherim and incense stands.

The oracle concerning Egypt.Behold, Yahweh is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;The idols of Egypt will shake at His presence,And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

"So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians;And they will each fight against his brother and each against his neighbor,City against city and kingdom against kingdom.

Yahweh has mixed within her a spirit of distortion;They have led Egypt astray in all that it does,As a drunken man strays into his vomit.

And I will clothe him with your tunicAnd tie your sash securely about him.I will give your authority into his hand,And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder,When he opens no one will shut,When he shuts no one will open.

I will drive him like a peg in a firm place,And he will become a throne of glory to his father's house.

So they will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, offspring and issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.

He has stretched His hand out over the sea;He has made the kingdoms tremble;Yahweh has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strong defenses.

And the people will be like the priest, the male slave like his master, the female slave like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

Then the moon will be humiliated and the sun ashamed,For Yahweh of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,And His glory will be before His elders.

For You have been a strong defense for the poor,A strong defense for the needy in his distress,A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat;For the breath of the ruthlessIs like a rain storm against a wall.

He will swallow up death for all time,And Lord Yahweh will wipe tears away from all faces,And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;For Yahweh has spoken.