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There is lamentation every where;

For I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure,

Saith the Lord.

³⁹'How is it broken down! ' wail ye!

'How hath Moab turned the back with shame! '

So shall Moab become a derision and a dismay

To all that are round about him.

 

⁴⁰For thus saith the Lord:

Behold, he shall swoop as a vulture,

And shall spread out his wings against Moab.

⁴¹The cities are taken,

And the strongholds are seized,

And the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day

Shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

⁴²And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,

Because he hath magnified himself against the Lord.

⁴³Terror, and the pit, and the trap,

Are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab,

Saith the Lord.

⁴⁴He that fleeth from the terror

Shall fall into the pit;

And he that getteth up out of the pit

Shall be taken in the trap;

For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab,

The year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

 

⁴⁵In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives

Stand without strength;

For a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon,

And a flame from the midst of Sihon,

And it devoureth the corner of Moab,

And the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

⁴⁶Woe unto thee, O Moab!

The people of Chemosh is undone;

For thy sons are taken away captive,

And thy daughters into captivity.

⁴⁷Yet will I turn the captivity of Moab

In the end of days, saith the Lord.

Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

49Of the children of Ammon.

Thus saith the Lord:

Hath Israel no sons?

Hath he no heir?

Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad,

And his people dwell in the cities thereof?

²Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,

That I will cause an alarm of war to be heard

Against Rabbah of the children of Ammon;

And it shall become a desolate mound,

And her daughters shall be burned with fire;

Then shall Israel dispossess them that did dispossess him,

Saith the Lord.

³Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is undone;

Cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth;

Lament, and run to and fro among the folds;

For Malcam shall go into captivity,

His priests and his princes together.

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