1   To Moab thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel: Woe vpon ^note Nabo, because it is wasted, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong one is confounded, and hath trembled.

2   There is no more reioycing in Moab: against Hesebon they haue thought euil. Come, and let vs destroy it from being a nation. therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shal folow thee.

3   The voice of a crie from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.

4   Moab is destroyed: proclaime a crie to her children.

5   For by the ascent of Luith shal the mourner goe vp in weeping: because in the descent of Oronaim the enemies haue heard the howling of destruction:

6   Flee, saue your liues: and you shal be as heath in the desert.

7   For that thou hast had confidence in thy munitions, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and ^note Chamos shal goe into transmigration, his priests, and his princes together.

8   And the spoyler shal come to euerie citie, and no citie shal be saued: and the valleys shal perish, and the champaine countries shal be destroyed: because our Lord hath said:

9   Geue ye the floure to Moab, because florishing it shal goe out: and her cities shal be desolate, & inhabitable.

10   Cursed be he that doeth the worke of our Lord fraudulently: and cursed that stayeth his sword from bloud.

11   Moab hath bene fruitful from his youth, and hath rested in his dregges: neither hath he bene powred out of vessel into vessel, and hath not gone into transmigration: therefore hath his taste remained in him, and his sauour is not changed.

12   Therefore behold the

daies come, saith our Lord: and I wil send vnto him those that shal order and dispose of his pottes, and they shal ouerthrow him, and shal emptie his vessels, and dash their pottes one against an other.

13   And Moab shal be ashamed of Chamos, as the house ^note of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, wherein it had confidence.

14   How say ye: We are valiant, and strong men to fight?

15   Moab is wasted, & her cities they haue cast downe: and her chosen yongmen are gone downe into slaughter: saith the king, the Lord of hostes is his name.

16   The destruction of Moab is nigh to come: the euil thereof shal come exceeding swiftly.

17   Comfort him al ye that are round about him, and al you that know his name, say: How is the strong rod broken, the glorious staffe?

18   Come downe from thy glorie, and sit in drought ô habitation of the daughter of Dibon: because the waster of Moab shal come vp to thee, he shal destroy thy munitions.

19   Stand in the way, and looke ô habitation of Aroer: aske of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is chanced?

20   Moab is confounded, because he is ouercome: howle ye, and crie, declare in Arnon, that Moab is wasted.

21   And iudgement is come to the champaine countrie: vpon Helon, and vpon Iasa, and vpon Mephaath,

22   and vpon Dibon, and vpon Nabo, & vpon the house of Deblathaim,

23   and vpon Cariathaim, and vpon Bethgamul, and vpon Bethmaon,

24   . and vpon Carioth, and vpon Bosra: and vpon al the cities of the Land of Moab, that are far, and neere.

25   The horne of Moab is cut of, and his arme is broken, saith our Lord.

26   Make him drunken, because he is erected against our Lord: and Moab shal wring his hand in his vomiting, and him self also shal be in derision.

27   For ^note Israel hath bene in derision vnto thee: as though thou hadst found him amongst theeues: for thy wordes therefore, which thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be led captiue.

28   Leaue the cities, and dwel in the rocke ye inhabitants of Moab, and be ye as a doue making her nest in the highest mouth of the hole.

29   We haue heard the pride of Moab, he is proude excedingly: his haughtines, and arrogancie, and pride, and loftines of his hart.

30   I know, saith our Lord, his bosting: and that the strength thereof is not according to it, neither hath it endeuoured to doe according to that which it was able.

31   Therefore wil I waile vpon Moab, and to al Moab wil I crie, to the men ^note of the earthen wal that lament.

32   Of the mourning of Iazer I wil weepe

to thee ô vineyard of Sabama: thy branches haue passed ouer the sea, they are come euen to the sea of Iaser: the spoiler hath violently entered vpon thine haruest, and thy vintage.

33   Ioy and gladnes is taken away out of Carmel, and out of the Land of Moab, and the wine out of the presses I haue taken away: the treader of the grape shal not sing the accustomed cheereful note.

34   From the crie of Hesebon vnto Eleale, and Iasa, they haue geuen their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, an heyfer of three yeares old: the waters also of Nemrim shal be verie il.

35   And I wil take away from Moab, saith our Lord, him that offereth in the excelses, and that sacrificeth to his goddes.

36   Therefore shal my hart sound to Moab as a shaulme: and my hart shal geue the sound of shaulmes to the men of the earthen wal: because he hath done more then he could, therefore haue they perished.

37   For euerie head ^note baldnes, and euerie beard shal be shauen: in al handes binding together, and vpon euerie backe cloth of heare.

38   Vpon al the house toppes of Moab, and in the streetes thereof al mourning: because I haue broken Moab as an vnprofitable vessel, saith our Lord.

39   How is it ouercome, and they haue howled? How hath Moab cast downe the necke, and is confounded? And Moab shal be in derision, and for an example to al round about him.

40   Thus saith our Lord: Behold he shal flee as an eagle, & shal stretch forth his winges to Moab.

41   Carioth is taken, and munitions are wonne: and the hart of the valiants of Moab in that day, shal be as the hart of a woman in trauel.

42   And Moab shal cease to be a people: because he hath gloried against our Lord.

43   Feare, and pitte, and snare vpon thee ô inhabiter of Moab, saith our Lord.

44   He that shal flee from the face of feare, shal fal into the pitte: and he that shal come vp out of the pitte, shal be taken in the snare: for I wil bring vpon Moab the yeare of their visitation, saith our Lord.

45   They stoode in the shadow of Hesebon that fled from the snare: because there came a fire out of Hesebon, and a flame out of the middes of Sehon, and it hath deuoured part of Moab, and the toppe of the children of tumult.

46   Woe to thee Moab, thou hast perished ô people of Chamos: because thy sonnes are taken, and thy daughters into captiuitie.

47   And I wil conuert the captiuitie of Moab ^note in the last daies, saith our Lord. Hitherto the iudgements of Moab.

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