Study Desk

-"How can you say, 'We are ^(C1)warriors, And men competent for battle'?

-"Moab has been destroyed and ^(F1)men have gone up to ^(F2)his cities; His choicest ^(F3)(C1)young men have also gone down to the slaughter," Declares the ^(C2)King, whose name is the LORD of armies.

"The disaster of Moab will ^(C1)soon come, And his catastrophe has hurried quickly.

-"Mourn for him, all you who live around him, And all of you who know his name; Say, 'How the mighty ^(F1)(C1)scepter has been broken, A staff of splendor!'

-"^(C1)Come down from your glory And sit on the parched ground, O ^(C2)daughter living in ^(C3)Dibon, For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, He has ruined your strongholds.

-"Stand by the road and keep watch, You inhabitant of ^(C1)Aroer; ^(C2)Ask him who flees and her who escapes And say, 'What has happened?'

-"Moab has been put to shame, for it has been ^(F1)shattered. Wail and cry out; Declare by the ^(C1)Arnon That Moab has been destroyed.

"Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, ^(C1)Jahzah, and against ^(C2)Mephaath,

against Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and ^(C1)Beth-meon,

against ^(C1)Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

"The ^(C1)horn of Moab has been cut off, and his ^(C2)arm broken," declares the LORD.

"^(C1)Make him drunk, for he has ^(F1)become ^(C2)arrogant toward the LORD; so Moab will ^(F2)vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.

"Now was Israel not a ^(C1)laughingstock to you? Or was he ^(F1)(C2)caught among thieves? For whenever you speak about him you ^(C3)shake your head in scorn.

-"Leave the cities and live among the ^(C1)rocky cliffs, You inhabitants of Moab, And be like a ^(C2)dove that nests Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

-"^(C1)We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud— Of his haughtiness, his ^(C2)pride, his arrogance, and ^(F1)his self-exaltation.