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²⁰Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed;

Wail and cry;

Tell ye it in Arnon,

That Moab is spoiled.

²¹And judgment is come upon the country of the Plain; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath; ²²and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim; ²³and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon; ²⁴and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

²⁵The horn of Moab is cut off,

And his arm is broken,

Saith the Lord.

²⁶Make ye him drunken,

For he magnified himself against the Lord;

And Moab shall wallow in his vomit,

And he also shall be in derision.

²⁷For was not Israel a derision unto thee?

Was he found among thieves?

For as often as thou speakest of him,

Thou waggest the head.

²⁸O ye that dwell in Moab,

Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock;

And be like the dove that maketh her nest

In the sides of the pit's mouth.

 

²⁹We have heard of the pride of Moab;

He is very proud;

His loftiness, and his pride, and his haughtiness,

And the assumption of his heart.

³⁰I know his arrogancy, saith the Lord,

That it is ill-founded;

His boastings have wrought nothing well-founded.

³¹Therefore will I wail for Moab;

Yea, I will cry out for all Moab;

For the men of Kir-heres shall my heart moan.

³²With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee,

O vine of Sibmah;

Thy branches passed over the sea,

They reached even to the sea of Jazer;

Upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage

The spoiler is fallen.

³³And gladness and joy is taken away

From the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab;

And I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses;

None shall tread with shouting;

The shouting shall be no shouting.

³⁴From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh,

Even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice,

From Zoar even unto Horonaim,

A heifer of three years old;

For the Waters of Nimrim also

Shall be desolate.

 

³⁵Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,

Saith the Lord,

Him that offereth in the high place,

And him that offereth to his gods.

³⁶Therefore my heart moaneth for Moab

Like pipes, and my heart moaneth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres;

Therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.

³⁷For every head is bald,

And every beard clipped;

Upon all the hands are cuttings,

And upon the loins sackcloth.

³⁸On all the housetops of Moab and in the broad places thereof

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