1 And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
2 For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.
3 Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.
4 Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.
5 Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.
6 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.
7 For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.
8 For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.
9 For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;
10 And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.
11 For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.
12 And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.
13 This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.
14 But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.
1 你们要把羊羔送给那地的掌权者， 从西拉经过旷野， 送到锡安居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）的山。
2 摩押的居民在亚嫩渡口， 像游荡的飞鸟， 又像被赶出巢窝的鸟儿。
3 "求你给我们献谋略， 作裁判！ 使你的影子在午间如同黑夜， 把被赶逐的人隐藏起来， 不可出卖逃亡的人。
4 让摩押那些被赶逐的人与你同住， 求你作他们的隐密处， 使他们脱离毁灭者的面。勒索人的必要终止， 毁灭人的也将止息， 欺压人的必从这地灭绝；
5 必有一个宝座在慈爱中建立； 必有一位凭信实坐在上面， 就是在大卫的帐棚里； 他必施行审判， 寻求公平， 并且迅速行公义。"
6 我们听说过摩押的骄傲， 十分骄傲； 也听说过它的狂妄、骄傲和忿怒， 它那浮夸的话都是虚假。
7 因此， 摩押人必哀哭， 各人一同为摩押哀哭， 摩押人又要为吉珥．哈列设的葡萄饼哀叹忧伤。
8 因为希实本的田地和西比玛的葡萄树都衰残了， 它们美好的枝子曾醉倒了列国的君主。它的嫩枝直达雅谢， 蔓延到旷野， 又向外伸展， 越过盐海。
9 因此， 我要为西比玛的葡萄树哀哭， 像雅谢人的哀哭一样。希实本和以利亚利啊！ 我要用眼泪浸透你； 因为有吶喊的声音临到你夏天的果子和你收割的庄稼。
10 欢喜快乐都从肥美的田地中被取去了； 葡萄园里必再没有歌唱， 也没有欢呼； 踹酒的不能在榨酒池里踹出酒来； 我止息了欢呼的声音！
11 因此， 我的心肠为摩押哀鸣， 有如琴瑟； 我的肺腑也为吉珥．哈列设哀哭。
12 到那时， 摩押人虽朝见他们的神， 虽在高处弄得疲乏不堪， 又到他们的圣所去祷告， 却总不得亨通。
13 以上是耶和华从前论到摩押所说的话。
14 但现在耶和华宣告说： "三年之内， 按照雇工的年数， 摩押的荣耀和他所有的群众， 都必被藐视； 余下的人必稀少， 微不足道。"