A Message Concerning Moab

48 Concerning Moab, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel:

“Woe to Nebo,

for it is devastated.

It is ashamed,

Kiriathaim is captured.

Misgab is ashamed,

and it is filled with terror.

2 The glory of Moab is no longer.

In Heshbon they planned evil against her.

Come and let us cut her off from being a nation.

Also, Madmen, you will be silent.

After you will go the sword.

3 The sound of a cry of distress arises from Horonaim,

devastation and great destruction.

4 Moab is broken,

her little ones ⌊make heard⌋a a cry for help.

5 For the ascent of Luhith,

in weeping they go weeping,

For on the slope of Horonaim they have heard

the distresses of the cry of distress of the destruction.

6 Flee! Save your life!

Forb you must be like the juniper tree in the desert.

7 For because of your trusting in your works and in your treasures,

even you yourselves will be taken,

and Chemosh will go out into the exile,

his priests and his officials together.

8 And the destroyer will come to every town,

and a town will not escape.

And the valley will be destroyed,

and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken.

9 Give salt for Moab,

for certainly she will go to ruin,

and her towns will become as a desolation,

⌊without⌋c an inhabitant in them.

10 The one who does the work of Yahweh with slackness is cursed,

and the one who keeps away blood from his sword is cursed.

11 Moab has been at ease from his youth,

and he has been quiet on his dregs,

and he has not been poured out from vessel to vessel,

and he has not gone into exile.

⌊Therefore⌋d his taste has remained unchanged,

and his fragrance has not changed.