1 Contra Moab. - Eis o que diz o Senhor dos exércitos, Deus de Israel: Ai de Nebo, porque chegou a sua ruína! Cariataim, tomada de assalto, cobriu-se de vergonha; a praça forte ficou em tumulto e desvairada.
2 Findou-se a glória de Moab! Em Hesebon conspira-se contra ela: Vamos riscar esse povo do número das nações! E tu também, Madmen, serás reduzida ao silêncio, porque a espada te persegue.
3 Gritos elevam-se de Oronaim: Devastação! Catástrofe!
4 Moab foi abatido; gritam seus filhinhos.
5 Pela encosta de Luit chora-se; sobe-se em prantos, e pela descida de Oronaim ouvem-se clamores de angústia.
6 Fugi! Salvai-vos! Sede qual zimbro no deserto!
7 Porque puseste a confiança nos teus ídolos e nos teus tesouros, tu também serás tomada. E será levado para o exílio Camos com seus sacerdotes e chefes!
8 Em todas as cidades penetrará o devastador; nenhuma será poupada. Será destruído o vale, e o planalto devastado, como disse o Senhor.
9 Dai asas a Moab para que tome vôo, porque suas cidades transformar-se-ão em deserto.
10 Maldito aquele que faz com negligência a obra do Senhor! Maldito o que recusa o sangue à sua espada!
11 Desde a juventude, Moab vivia em paz, repousando sobre a borra, sem ser transvasada, nem exilada. Assim o sabor lhe ficou, e intato o aroma.
12 Dias, porém, virão - oráculo do Senhor -, em que lhe enviarei transvasadores que o trasfegarão, esvaziando os tonéis e quebrando os odres.
13 E Moab envergonhar-se-á de Camos, como Israel envergonhou-se de Betel que constituía sua esperança.
14 Como podeis dizer: Somos bravos, valentes guerreiros?
15 Moab está devastado; escalaram suas cidades. A flor de sua mocidade desce para a matança - oráculo do rei, cujo nome é Senhor dos exércitos.
16 A ruína de Moab é iminente, aproxima-se-lhe a largos passos a desgraça.
17 Chorai-a vós, seus vizinhos, e dizei vós, que lhe conheceis o nome: Como se partiu esse cetro poderoso, esse cetro cheio de glórias?
18 Desce de tua glória, assenta-te no solo ressecado, filha de Dibon, que moras {neste lugar}, porque o devastador de Moab sobe contra ti, para destruir tuas muralhas.
19 Detém-te no caminho e espreita, habitante de Aroer; interroga o que foge e o que escapa, perguntando-lhes: O que aconteceu?
20 Moab em ruínas cobre-se de vergonha: gritai, gemei! Anuncia ao norte de Arnon que Moab foi destruído.
21 Foi o julgamento executado sobre a terra da planície, sobre Helon, Jasa, Mefaat,
22 Dibon, Nebo e Bet-Deblataim;
23 sobre Cariataim, Bet-Gamul, Bet-Maon,
24 Cariot e Bosra, e sobre todas as cidades, próximas ou distantes da terra de Moab.
25 Foi abatido o poderio de Moab, partiu-se-lhe o braço - oráculo do Senhor.
26 Embriagai Moab, porque desafiou o Senhor. Debater-se-á no próprio vômito. E por sua vez tornar-se-á objeto de zombaria.
27 Não era Israel alvo de teu escárnio? Foi ele surpreendido entre ladrões, para que, ao falar dele, sempre abanasses a cabeça?
28 Abandonai as cidades para habitar os rochedos, habitantes de Moab, assim como faz a pomba que coloca o ninho na borda dos precipícios.
29 Conhecemos o orgulho do soberbo Moab, sua altivez, sua jactância, seu orgulho e arrogância de coração.
30 Conheço-lhe a presunção - oráculo do Senhor -, a jactância e a vaidade.
31 Eis por que gemerei sobre Moab inteiro, e sobre ele lançarei gritos; choro o povo de Quir-Heres.
32 Mais que sobre Jazer, choro sobre ti, vinha de Sabama; tuas vides se alongavam até o mar, atingindo o mar de Jazer; sobre tuas searas de vindimas lançou-se o devastador.
33 Afastaram-se a alegria e o regozijo dos vergéis da terra de Moab; fiz com que secasse o vinho nos lagares; já não se amassam as uvas entre gritos de alegria, nem a canção é a mesma canção.
34 O clamor de Hesebom sobe até Eleale, e a voz se estende até Jasa, e de Segor até Oronaim e Eglat-Selesia, porque as próprias águas de Ninrim secaram.
35 Farei desaparecer de Moab - oráculo do Senhor -, aqueles que sobem aos lugares altos para incensar seus deuses.
36 Por isso, meu coração por Moab geme, como geme a flauta; meu coração pelo povo de Quir-Heres geme, como geme a flauta. Eis a razão pela qual todo o proveito obtido se perdeu.
37 Todas as cabeças foram rapadas, e cortadas as barbas. Foram golpeadas as mãos, e os rins cobertos de sacos.
38 Sobre os tetos de Moab e em suas praças, só lamentos se ouvirão, porque despedacei Moab, qual vaso inútil - oráculo do Senhor.
39 Tudo é ruína! Gemei! Quão vergonhoso é para Moab baixar assim a cerviz! Tornou-se Moab objeto de escarmento, e de pavor para todos os vizinhos!
40 Porquanto, assim diz o Senhor: o inimigo, como águia, toma vôo, estendendo as asas sobre Moab;
41 tomam-se-lhe as cidades, arrebatam-se-lhe as fortificações, e o coração dos guerreiros de Moab será naquele dia semelhante ao coração da mulher em parto.
42 Moab foi riscado do número dos povos, porque desafiou o Senhor.
43 O terror, o fosso e o laço acercam-se de ti, ó moabita - oráculo do Senhor.
44 Quem fugir do terror cairá no fosso, e o que escapar do fosso será apanhado no laço! Porque trarei sobre ele, sobre Moab, o ano do seu castigo - oráculo do Senhor.
45 À sombra de Hesebon detiveram-se, extenuados, os fugitivos; de Hesebon, porém, jorrou um fogo, uma chama do meio do Seon, que devora os flancos de Moab e as cabeças dos filhos do tumulto.
46 Desgraçado de ti, Moab! Chegou teu fim, povo de Camos! São arrastados teus filhos ao cativeiro, e tuas filhas, aprisionadas.
47 Com o andar do tempo, porém - oráculo do Senhor -, mudarei a sorte de Moab. {Fim do julgamento acerca de Moab.}
1 Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says:
"Woe to Nebo!
For it is laid waste.
Kiriathaim is disappointed.
It is taken.
Misgab is put to shame
and broken down.
2 The praise of Moab is no more.
In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:
‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’
You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence.
The sword will pursue you.
3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
desolation and great destruction!
4 Moab is destroyed.
Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
5 For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping.
For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
6 Flee! Save your lives!
Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.
7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,
you also will be taken.
Chemosh will go out into captivity,
his priests and his princes together.
8 The destroyer will come on every city,
and no city will escape;
the valley also will perish,
and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken.
9 Give wings to Moab,
that she may fly and get herself away:
and her cities will become a desolation,
without anyone to dwell in them.
10 "Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently;
and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
11 "Moab has been at ease from his youth,
and he has settled on his dregs,
and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
neither has he gone into captivity;
therefore his taste remains in him,
and his scent is not changed.
12 Therefore behold, the days come," says Yahweh,
"that I will send to him those who pour off,
and they will pour him off;
and they will empty his vessels,
and break their containers in pieces.
13 Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh,
as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
14 "How do you say, ‘We are mighty men,
and valiant men for the war’?
15 Moab is laid waste,
and they have gone up into his cities,
and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,"
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
16 "The calamity of Moab is near to come,
and his affliction hurries fast.
17 All you who are around him, bemoan him;
and all you who know his name, say,
‘How the strong staff is broken,
the beautiful rod!’
18 "You daughter who dwells in Dibon,
come down from your glory,
and sit in thirst;
for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you.
He has destroyed your strongholds.
19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch.
Ask him who flees, and her who escapes;
say, ‘What has been done?’
20 Moab is disappointed;
for it is broken down.
Wail and cry!
Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
21 Judgment has come on the plain country—
on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,
22 on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,
23 on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,
24 on Kerioth, on Bozrah,
and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
25 The horn of Moab is cut off,
and his arm is broken," says Yahweh.
26 "Make him drunk,
for he magnified himself against Yahweh.
Moab will wallow in his vomit,
and he also will be in derision.
27 For wasn’t Israel a derision to you?
Was he found among thieves?
For as often as you speak of him,
you shake your head.
28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock.
Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
29 "We have heard of the pride of Moab.
He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride,
his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.
30 I know his wrath," says Yahweh, "that it is nothing;
his boastings have done nothing.
31 Therefore I will wail for Moab.
Yes, I will cry out for all Moab.
They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
32 With more than the weeping of Jazer
I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah.
Your branches passed over the sea.
They reached even to the sea of Jazer.
The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits
and on your vintage.
33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field
and from the land of Moab.
I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses.
No one will tread with shouting.
The shouting will be no shouting.
34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh,
even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice,
from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah;
for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.
35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab," says Yahweh,
"him who offers in the high place,
and him who burns incense to his gods.
36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes,
and my heart sounds like flutes for the men of Kir Heres.
Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.
37 For every head is bald,
and every beard clipped.
There are cuttings on all the hands,
and sackcloth on the waist.
38 On all the housetops of Moab,
and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere;
for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights," says Yahweh.
39 "How it is broken down!
How they wail!
How Moab has turned the back with shame!
So will Moab become a derision
and a terror to all who are around him."
40 For Yahweh says: "Behold, he will fly as an eagle,
and will spread out his wings against Moab.
41 Kerioth is taken,
and the strongholds are seized.
The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day
will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42 Moab will be destroyed from being a people,
because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.
43 Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you,
inhabitant of Moab," says Yahweh.
44 "He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;
and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare,
for I will bring on him, even on Moab,
the year of their visitation," says Yahweh.
45 "Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;
for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
and a flame from the middle of Sihon,
and has devoured the corner of Moab,
and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
46 Woe to you, O Moab!
The people of Chemosh are undone;
for your sons are taken away captive,
and your daughters into captivity.
47 "Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,"
says Yahweh.
Thus far is the judgment of Moab.