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。"

1 Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. 3 Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5 And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought. 7 Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly stricken. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the battle shout is fallen. 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage shout to cease. 11 Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres. 12 And it shall come to pass, when Moab presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.

13 This is the word that Jehovah spake concerning Moab in time past. 14 But now Jehovah hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.