15. The destroyer of Moab and its townshas come up, and the best of its young menhave gone down to slaughter.This is the King’s declaration;Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
16. Moab’s calamity is near at hand;his disaster is rushing swiftly.
17. Mourn for him, all you surrounding nations,everyone who knows his name.Say: How the mighty scepter is shattered,the glorious staff!
18. Come down from glory; sit on parched ground,resident of the daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you;he has destroyed your fortresses.
19. Stand by the highway and look,resident of Aroer! Ask him who is fleeing or her who is escaping: What happened?
20. Moab is put to shame, indeed dismayed.Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnonthat Moab is destroyed.
21. “Judgment has come to the land of the plateau — to Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,