Moab Destroyed
1 Send 2 Kin. 3:4; Ezra 7:17the lamb to the ruler of the land,
2 Kin. 14:7; Is. 42:11From Sela to the wilderness,
To the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be as a Prov. 27:8wandering bird thrown out of the nest;
So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Num. 21:13Arnon.
3 "Take counsel, execute judgment;
Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day;
Hide the outcasts,
Do not betray him who escapes.
4 Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab;
Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler.
For the extortioner is at an end,
Devastation ceases,
The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 In mercy (Is. 9:6, 7; 32:1; 55:4; Dan. 7:14; Mic. 4:7; Luke 1:33; Rev. 11:15)the throne will be established;
And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
Ps. 72:2Judging and seeking justice and hastening Is. 9:7righteousness."
6 We have heard of the Jer. 48:29; Amos 2:1; Obad. 3, 4; Zeph. 2:8, 10pride of Moab—
Heis very proud—
Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;
Is. 28:15But his lies shall not be so.
7 Therefore Moab shall Jer. 48:20wail for Moab;
Everyone shall wail.
For the foundations 2 Kin. 3:25; Jer. 48:31of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;
Surely theyare stricken.
8 For Is. 24:7the fields of Heshbon languish,
AndIs. 16:9the vine of Sibmah;
The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants,
Which have reached to Jazer
And wandered through the wilderness.
Her branches are stretched out,
They are gone over the Jer. 48:32sea.
9 Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah,
With the weeping of Jazer;
I will drench you with my tears,
Is. 15:4O Heshbon and Elealeh;
For battle cries have fallen
Over your summer fruits and your harvest.
10 Is. 24:8; Jer. 48:33Gladness is taken away,
And joy from the plentiful field;
In the vineyards there will be no singing,
Nor will there be shouting;
No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;
I have made their shouting cease.
11 Therefore Is. 15:5; 63:15; Jer. 48:36; Hos. 11:8; Phil. 2:1my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab,
And my inner being for Kir Heres.
12 And it shall come to pass,
When it is seen that Moab is weary on Is. 15:2the high place,
That he will come to his sanctuary to pray;
But he will not prevail.
13 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, "Within three years, Job 7:1; 14:6; Is. 21:16as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant willbe very small and feeble."