1Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of the Arnon. 3Give counsel, execute justice; make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; do not betray the fugitive. 4Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be a shelter to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. 6We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing. 7Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth you shall mourn, utterly stricken. 8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. 9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon your summer fruits and upon your harvest the battle shout has fallen. 10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, nor joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage shout cease. 11Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir-heres. 12And it shall come to pass, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. 13This is the word that Yehovah spoke concerning Moab in time past. 14But now Yehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.