Lexicon :: Strong's H4124 - mô'āḇ

Dibon went up to its temple

to weep at its high places.

Moab wails on Nebo and at[fn] Medeba.

Every head is shaved;

every beard is chopped short.

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;

their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.

Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,

and they tremble.

My heart cries out over Moab,

whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

to Eglath-shelishiyah;

they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;

they raise a cry of destruction

on the road to Horonaim.

For their cry echoes

throughout the territory of Moab.

Their wailing reaches Eglaim;

their wailing reaches Beer-elim.

The Waters of Dibon[fn] are full of blood,

but I will bring on Dibon even more than this —

a lion for those who escape from Moab,

and for the survivors in the land.

Let my refugees stay with you;

be a refuge for Moab[fn] from the aggressor.

When the oppressor has gone,

destruction has ended,

and marauders have vanished from the land,

We have heard of Moab’s pride —

how very proud he is —

his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance,

and his empty boasting.

Therefore let Moab wail;

let every one of them wail for Moab.

You who are completely devastated, mourn

for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.

Therefore I moan like the sound of a lyre for Moab,

as does my innermost being for Kir-heres.

When Moab appears

and tires himself out on the high place

and comes to his sanctuary to pray,

it will do him no good.

This is the message that the LORD previously announced about Moab.

And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”

There is no longer praise for Moab;

they plan harm against her in Heshbon:

Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood.

Also, Madmen, you will be silenced;

the sword will follow you.

Moab will be shattered;

her little ones will cry out.

Make Moab a salt marsh,[fn]

for she will run away;[fn]

her towns will become a desolation,

without inhabitant.

Moab has been left quiet since his youth,

settled like wine on its dregs.

He hasn’t been poured from one container to another

or gone into exile.

So his taste has remained the same,

and his aroma hasn’t changed.

Moab will be put to shame because of Chemosh,

just as the house of Israel was put to shame

because of Bethel that they trusted in.

The destroyer of Moab and its towns

has come up,[fn]

and the best of its young men

have gone down to slaughter.

This is the King’s declaration;

the LORD of Armies is his name.

Moab’s calamity is near at hand;

his disaster is rushing swiftly.

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.

Moab is put to shame, indeed dismayed.

Wail and cry out!

Declare by the Arnon

that Moab is destroyed.

“Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of the land of Moab, those far and near.

“Moab’s horn is chopped off; his arm is shattered.”

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“Make him drunk, because he has exalted himself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs,

residents of Moab!

Be like a dove

that nests inside the mouth of a cave.

We have heard of Moab’s pride,

great pride, indeed —

his insolence, arrogance, pride,

and haughty heart.

Therefore, I will wail over Moab.

I will cry out for Moab, all of it;

he will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

Gladness and celebration are taken from the fertile field

and from the land of Moab.

I have stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses;

no one will tread with shouts of joy.

The shouting is not a shout of joy.

“In Moab, I will stop” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“the one who offers sacrifices on the high place and burns incense to his gods.

“Therefore, my heart moans like flutes for Moab, and my heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. And therefore, the wealth he has gained has perished.

“On all the rooftops of Moab and in her public squares, everyone is mourning because I have shattered Moab like a jar no one wants.” This is the LORD’s declaration.

“How broken it is! They wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is ashamed. Moab will become a laughingstock and a shock to all those around him.”

For this is what the LORD says:

Look! He will swoop down like an eagle

and spread his wings against Moab.

The towns have[fn] been captured,

and the strongholds seized.

In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors

will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.

Moab will be destroyed as a people

because he has exalted himself against the LORD.

Panic, pit, and trap

await you, resident of Moab.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

He who flees from the panic will fall in the pit,

and he who climbs from the pit

will be captured in the trap,

for I will bring against Moab

the year of their punishment.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Those who flee will stand exhausted in Heshbon’s shadow

because fire has come out from Heshbon

and a flame from within Sihon.

It will devour Moab’s forehead

and the skull of the noisemakers.

Woe to you, Moab!

The people of Chemosh have perished

because your sons have been taken captive

and your daughters have gone into captivity.

Yet, I will restore the fortunes[fn] of Moab in the last days.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

The judgment on Moab ends here.