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For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; yet I will bring upon Dibon even more— a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.

Therefore let Moab wail, let everyone wail for Moab. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vines of Sibmah, whose clusters once made drunk the lords of the nations, reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; their shoots once spread abroad and crossed over the sea.

Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for the shout over your fruit harvest and your grain harvest has ceased.

Therefore my heart throbs like a harp for Moab, and my very soul for Kir-heres.

Her towns will be deserted forever; they will be places for flocks, which will lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the sacred poles or the altars of incense.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and set out slips of an alien god,

For thus the Lord said to me: I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away.

Its weavers will be dismayed, and all who work for wages will be grieved.

Neither head nor tail, palm branch or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.

Then the Lord said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia,

In that day the inhabitants of this coastland will say, ‘See, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?'"

My mind reels, horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

For thus the Lord said to me: "Go, post a lookout, let him announce what he sees.

For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the stress of battle.

For thus the Lord said to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end;

and the remaining bows of Kedar's warriors will be few; for the Lord , the God of Israel, has spoken.

Therefore I said: Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people.