19. You who live in Aroer, stand by the road and watch.Question the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping.Ask them, ‘What has happened?’
20. They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen!Wail and cry out in mourning!Announce along the Arnon Riverthat Moab has been destroyed.’
21. “Judgment will come on the cities on the high plain: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
22. on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth Diblathaim,
23. on Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon,
24. on Kerioth and Bozrah. It will come on all the towns of Moab, both far and near.
25. Moab’s might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. I, the Lord, affirm it!
26. “Moab has vaunted itself against me.So make him drunk with the wine of my wrathuntil he splashes around in his own vomit,until others treat him as a laughingstock.
27. For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel?Did you think that they were nothing but thieves,that you shook your head in contemptevery time you talked about them?
28. Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab.Go and live in the cliffs.Be like a dove that makes its nesthigh on the sides of a ravine.
29. I have heard how proud the people of Moab are,I know how haughty they are.I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are,what a high opinion they have of themselves.
30. I, the Lord, affirm that I know how arrogant they are.But their pride is ill-founded.Their boastings will prove to be false.
31. So I will weep with sorrow for Moab.I will cry out in sadness for all of Moab.I will moan for the people of Kir Heres.
32. I will weep for the grapevines of Sibmahjust like the town of Jazer weeps over them.Their branches once spread as far as the Dead Sea.They reached as far as the town of Jazer.The destroyer will ravage her fig, date, and grape crops.
33. Joy and gladness will disappearfrom the fruitful land of Moab.I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses.No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy.The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers,not the shouts of those making wine.
34. Cries of anguish raised from Heshbon and Elealehwill be sounded as far as Jahaz.They will be sounded from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah.For even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.
35. I will put an end in Moabto those who make offerings at her places of worship.I will put an end to those who sacrifice to other gods.I, the Lord, affirm it!