1Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down; (民32:3; 民32:37; 书13:19; 王下24:2; 耶25:21; 耶48:20; 耶48:22; 耶48:23; 耶48:39; 结25:8; 结25:9; 摩2:1; 番2:8)2the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’ You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you. (民32:37; 赛10:31; 赛15:4; 耶31:36; 耶48:34; 耶48:45; 耶49:3)3“A voice! A cry from Horonaim, ‘Desolation and great destruction!’ (赛15:5; 耶48:34)4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry.5For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping;[1] for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry[2] of destruction. (耶48:3)6Flee! Save yourselves! You will be like a juniper in the desert! (耶17:6)7For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials. (民21:29; 赛46:2; 耶49:3; 耶49:4)8The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord has spoken. (申3:10; 书13:9; 书13:17; 书13:21; 耶6:26; 耶48:21)9“Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.10“Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed. (士5:23; 撒上15:3; 撒上15:9; 王上20:42; 林前15:58)11“Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his dregs; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. (番1:12)12“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his[3] jars in pieces.13Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. (民21:29; 王上12:29; 赛16:14; 何10:6)14“How do you say, ‘We are heroes and mighty men of war’?15The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts. (赛15:1; 耶46:18; 耶48:8; 耶48:18; 耶48:20; 耶50:27)16The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly.17Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all who know his name; say, ‘How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.’ (赛9:4; 赛14:5; 赛15:4; 赛16:7)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. (民21:30; 赛15:2; 赛47:1)19Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, ‘What has happened?’ (申2:36; 书13:9; 撒上4:13; 撒上4:16; 鸿2:1)20Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. (赛16:2; 耶48:15; 耶48:17)21“Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath, (民21:23; 书13:18; 耶48:8)22and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, (民33:46; 赛15:2; 耶48:18)23and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon, (书13:17; 代上5:8; 耶48:1)24and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. (赛63:1; 耶49:13; 耶49:22; 摩2:2)25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the Lord. (诗75:10; 结30:21)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. (赛19:14; 耶25:27; 耶48:39; 耶48:42; 耶51:39)27Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head? (诗64:8; 耶2:26; 哀2:15; 结25:8; 番2:8; 太27:39)28“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge. (诗55:6; 歌2:14; 耶48:9)29We 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. (赛16:6)30I know his insolence, declares the Lord; his boasts are false, his deeds are false. (耶50:36)31Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn. (王下3:25; 赛15:5; 赛16:7; 赛16:11)32More 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 grapes the destroyer has fallen. (民21:32; 书13:19; 诗80:11; 赛16:8)33Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy. (赛16:10)34“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate. (赛15:4; 耶48:3)35And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the Lord, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and makes offerings to his god. (赛15:2; 赛16:12; 结20:29)36Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished. (赛15:7; 耶48:31)37“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth. (赛15:2; 耶4:8; 耶47:5; 耶49:3; 哀2:10)38On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord. (耶22:28)39How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.” (耶48:6; 耶48:26)40For thus says the Lord: “Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab; (申28:49; 赛8:8; 耶49:22; 结17:3)41the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains; (赛13:7; 耶6:24; 耶48:24)42Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the Lord. (赛7:8; 耶48:26)43Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the Lord. (赛24:17; 哀3:47)44He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the Lord. (耶11:23)45“In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength, for fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult. (民24:17)46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity. (耶48:1; 耶48:13)47Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the Lord.” Thus far is the judgment on Moab. (耶46:27; 耶49:39)