Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Żiyyon.

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird, as a scattered nest, the daughters of Mo᾽av shall be at the fords of Arnon.

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the wanderer.

Let my outcasts, the outcasts of Mo᾽av, dwell with thee; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

And in mercy a throne was established: and he sat upon it in truthfulness in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and quick to do righteousness.

We have heard of the pride of Mo᾽av; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: false are his pratings.

Therefore shall Mo᾽av howl for Mo᾽av, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Qir-ĥareset shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.

For the fields of Ḥeshbon languish, and the vine of Sivma: have broken down its choice branches, they reached to Ya῾zer, they wandered into the wilderness: her offshoots were stretched out, they went over the sea.

Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Ya῾zer the vine of Sivma: I will water thee with my tears, O Ḥeshbon, and ᾽El῾ale: for on thy summer fruits and on thy harvest the battle cry has fallen.

And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made shouting at the vintage to cease.

Wherefore my heart shall moan like a lyre for Mo᾽av, and my inward parts for Qir-ĥeres.

And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Mo᾽av is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning Mo᾽av long ago.

But now the Lord has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Mo᾽av shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and powerless.