17. Grieve for him, all you who are around him,and all who know his name;say, ‘How the mighty scepter is broken,the glorious staff.’
18. “Come down from your glory,and sit on the parched ground,O inhabitant of Dibon!For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;he has destroyed your strongholds.
19. Stand by the way and watch,O inhabitant of Aroer!Ask him who flees and her who escapes;say, ‘What has happened?’
20. Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry!Tell it beside the Arnon,that Moab is laid waste.
21. “Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,
22. and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
23. and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
24. and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
25. The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the Lord.
26. “Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.
27. Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
28. “Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,O inhabitants of Moab!Be like the dove that nestsin the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
29. We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,and the haughtiness of his heart.
30. I know his insolence, declares the Lord; his boasts are false,his deeds are false.
31. Therefore I wail for Moab;I cry out for all Moab;for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn.
32. More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea,reached to the Sea of Jazer;on your summer fruits and your grapesthe destroyer has fallen.