^{9 Ref} For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

^{10 Ref} This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.