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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.” |
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