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Moab is ashamed, for it is filled with terror. Wail and cry out, tell it by Arnon that Moab is devastated.

Now was not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For as often as you spoke over him you shook your head.

Therefore over Moab I wail, and for all of Moab I cry out, for the people of Kir-heres I moan.

More than the weeping of Jazer I weep for you, O vine Sibmah. Your branches cross over the sea, up to the sea of Jazer they reach. Upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage the destroyer has fallen.

From the cry for help of Heshbon, up to Elealeh, up to Jahaz, they give their voice, from Zoar up to Horonaim, up to Eglath-shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim have become as a desolation.

And I will cause to disappear for Moab," declares Yahweh, "the one who presents a sacrifice at a high place, and the one who burns a smoke offering to his gods.

Therefore my heart moans for Moab like the flute. It moans for the people of Kir-heres like the flute. Therefore the wealth they gained has perished.

For on every head is baldness, and every beard is trimmed. On all the hands, slashes, and on the loins, sackcloth.

On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, there is wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it," declares Yahweh.

"How it is filled with terror! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is disgraced! So Moab has become as a derision, and as a terror for all his surrounding peoples."

For thus says Yahweh, "Look, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab.

"He who flees before the dread will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment," declares Yahweh.

"In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stand without strength, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. And it has eaten the forehead of Moab, and the skulls of the people of tumult.

Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished. For your sons have been taken into captivity, and your daughters into captivity.

Concerning the Ammonites: Thus says Yahweh, "Are there no sons for Israel? Or is there no heir for him? Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad, and his people dwelled in its towns?

"Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.

Flee! Turn back! Get down low! O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau at the time when I will punish him.

If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy only enough for them.

For thus says Yahweh, "Look, those who are not condemned to drink the cup must certainly drink it. And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.

For I have sworn by myself," declares Yahweh, "that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be everlasting sites of ruins."