^{1 Ref} Concerning Moab: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Wo unto Nebo, for it is spoiled, Put to shame, captured hath been Kiriathaim, Put to shame hath been the high tower, Yea, it hath been broken down.

^{2 Ref} There is no more praise of Moab, In Heshbon they devised against it evil: Come, and we cut it off from `being' a nation, Also, O Madmen, thou art cut off, After thee goeth a sword.

^{3 Ref} A voice of a cry `is' from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction.

^{4 Ref} Destroyed hath been Moab, Caused a cry to be heard have her little ones.

^{5 Ref} For the ascent of Luhith with weeping, Go up doth weeping, For in the descent of Horonaim Adversaries a cry of desolation have heard.

^{6 Ref} Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.

^{7 Ref} For, because of thy trusting in thy works, And in thy treasures, even thou art captured, And gone out hath Chemosh in a removal, His priests and his heads together.

^{8 Ref} And come in doth a spoiler unto every city, And no city doth escape, And perished hath the valley, And destroyed been the plain, as Jehovah said.

^{9 Ref} Give wings to Moab, for she utterly goeth out, And her cities are for a desolation, Without an inhabitant in them.

^{10 Ref} Cursed `is' he who is doing the work of Jehovah slothfully, And cursed `is' he Who is withholding his sword from blood.

^{11 Ref} Secure is Moab from his youth, And at rest `is' he for his preserved things, And he hath not been emptied out from vessel unto vessel, And into captivity he hath not gone, Therefore hath his taste remained in him, And his fragrance hath not been changed.

^{12 Ref} Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sent to him wanderers, And they have caused him to wander, And his vessels they empty out, And his bottles they dash in pieces.

^{13 Ref} And ashamed hath been Moab because of Chemosh, As the house of Israel have been ashamed Because of Beth-El their confidence.

^{14 Ref} How do ye say, We `are' mighty, And men of strength for battle?

^{15 Ref} Spoiled is Moab, and her cities hath one gone up, And the choice of its young men Have gone down to slaughter, An affirmation of the King, Jehovah of Hosts `is' His name.

^{16 Ref} Near is the calamity of Moab to come, And his affliction hath hasted exceedingly.

^{17 Ref} Bemoan for him, all ye round about him, And all knowing his name, say ye: How hath it been broken, the staff of strength, The rod of beauty.

^{18 Ref} Come down from honour, sit in thirst, O inhabitant, daughter of Dibon, For a spoiler of Moab hath come up to thee, He hath destroyed thy fenced places.

^{19 Ref} On the way stand, and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer, Ask the fugitive and escaped, Say, What hath happened?

^{20 Ref} Put to shame hath been Moab, For it hath been broken down, Howl and cry, declare ye in Arnon, For spoiled is Moab,

^{21 Ref} And judgment hath come in unto the land of the plain -- unto Holon, And unto Jahazah, and on Mephaath,

^{22 Ref} And on Dibon, and on Nebo, And on Beth-Diblathaim, and on Kirathaim,

^{23 Ref} And on Beth-Gamul, and on Beth-Meon,

^{24 Ref} And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, And on all cities of the land of Moab, The far off and the near.

^{25 Ref} Cut down hath been the horn of Moab, And his arm hath been broken, An affirmation of Jehovah.