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Prophecy of Moab's Devastation

^1 (C1)Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,
From ^(F1)(C2)Sela by way of the wilderness to the ^(C3)mountain of the daughter of Zion.

² Then, like ^(F1)(C1)fleeing birds or scattered ^(F2)nestlings,
The daughters of ^(C2)Moab will be at the fords of the ^(C3)Arnon.

³ "^(F1)Give us advice, make a decision;
^(F2)Cast your ^(C1)shadow like night ^(F3)at high noon;
^(C2)Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

⁴ "Let the ^(F1)outcasts of Moab stay with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer."
For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
^(C1)Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

⁵ A ^(C1)throne will even be established in lovingkindness,
And a judge will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of ^(C2)David;
Moreover, he will seek justice
And be prompt in righteousness.

^6 (C1)We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;
Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury;
^(C2)His idle boasts are ^(F1)false.

⁷ Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.
You will moan for the ^(C1)raisin cakes of ^(C2)Kir-hareseth
As those who are utterly stricken.

⁸ For the fields of ^(C1)Heshbon have ^(F1)withered, the vines of ^(C2)Sibmah as well;
The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters
Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;
^(C3)Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

⁹ Therefore I will ^(C1)weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;
I will drench you with my tears, O ^(C2)Heshbon and Elealeh;
For the shouting over your ^(C3)summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

^10 (C1)Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;
In the ^(C2)vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting,
No ^(C3)treader treads out wine in the presses,
For I have made the shouting to cease.

¹¹ Therefore my ^(F1)(C1)heart intones like a harp for Moab
And my ^(F2)inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.

¹² So it will come about when Moab ^(C1)presents himself,
When he ^(C2)wearies himself upon his ^(C3)high place
And comes to his sanctuary to pray,
That he will not prevail.

¹³ This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.¹⁴ But now the LORD speaks, saying, "Within three years, as ^(F1)(C1)a hired man would count them, the glory of ^(C2)Moab will be degraded along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and ^(F2)impotent."