New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)

¹ Send a ram, YOU men, to the ruler of the land, from Seʹla toward the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

² And it must occur [that] like a fleeing winged creature, chased away from [its] nest, the daughters of Moʹab will become at the fords of Arʹnon.

³ “Bring in^*1 counsel, YOU men, execute the decision. “Make^*2 your shadow just like the night in the midst of noontime. Conceal the dispersed ones; do not betray anyone fleeing.

⁴ May my dispersed ones reside as aliens even in you, O Moʹab. Become a place of concealment to them because of the despoiler. For the oppressor^*1 has reached his end; the despoiling has terminated; those trampling down [others] have been finished off the earth.^*2

⁵ “And in loving-kindness^*1 a throne will certainly be firmly established; and one must sit down upon it in trueness^*2 in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and being prompt in righteousness.”

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moʹab, that he is very proud; his haughtiness and his pride and his fury—his empty talk will not be so.

⁷ Therefore Moʹab will howl for Moʹab; even all of it will howl. For the raisin cakes of Kir-harʹe·seth the stricken ones indeed will moan,

⁸ because the terraces themselves of Heshʹbon have withered. The vine of Sibʹmah—the owners^*1 of the nations themselves have smitten down its bright-red [branches].^*2 As far as Jaʹzer they had reached; they had wandered about in the wilderness. Its own shoots had been left to luxuriate for themselves; they had gone over to the sea.

⁹ That is why I shall weep with the weeping of Jaʹzer over the vine of Sibʹmah. With my tears I shall drench you, O Heshʹbon and E·le·aʹleh, because shouting even over your summer and over your harvest has fallen down.^*1

¹⁰ And rejoicing and joyfulness have been taken away from the orchard; and in the vineyards there is no joyful crying out, there is no shouting done. No wine in the presses does the treader tread out. Shouting I have caused to cease.

¹¹ That is why my very inwards are boisterous just like a harp even over Moʹab, and the midst of me over Kir-harʹe·seth.^*1

¹² And it occurred that it was seen that Moʹab was made weary upon the high place; and he came to his sanctuary to pray, and he could not accomplish anything.

¹³ This is the word that Jehovah spoke concerning Moʹab formerly.

¹⁴ And now Jehovah has spoken, saying: “Within three years, according to the years of a hired laborer, the glory of Moʹab must also be disgraced with much commotion of every sort, and those who remain over will be a trifling few, not mighty.”

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