48The Message on Moab from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel: "Doom to Nebo! Leveled to the ground! Kiriathaim demeaned and defeated, The mighty fortress reduced to a molehill,H4124H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1945H5015H7703H7156H3001H3920H4869H3001H28652Moab's glory—dust and ashes. Conspirators plot Heshbon's doom: 'Come, let's wipe Moab off the map.' Dungface Dimon will loudly lament, as killing follows killing.H8416H4124H2809H2803H7451H3212H3772H1471H1826H4086H2719H3212H3103Listen! A cry out of Horonaim: 'Disaster—doom and more doom!'H6963H6818H2773H7701H1419H76674Moab will be shattered. Her cries will be heard clear down in Zoar.H4124H7665H6810H2201H80855Up the ascent of Luhith climbers weep, And down the descent from Horonaim, cries of loss and devastation.H4608H3872H1065H1065H5927H4174H2773H6862H8085H6818H76676Oh, run for your lives! Get out while you can! Survive by your wits in the wild!H5127H4422H5315H1961H6176H40577You trusted in thick walls and big money, yes? But it won't help you now. Your big god Chemosh will be hauled off, his priests and managers with him.H982H4639H214H3920H3645H3318H1473H3548H8269H31628A wrecker will wreck every city. Not a city will survive. The valley fields will be ruined, the plateau pastures destroyed, just as I told you.H7703H935H5892H5892H4422H6010H6H4334H8045H3068H5599Cover the land of Moab with salt. Make sure nothing ever grows here again. Her towns will all be ghost towns. Nobody will ever live here again.H5414H6731H4124H5323H3318H5892H8047H3427H200410Sloppy work in GOD's name is cursed, and cursed all halfhearted use of the sword.H779H6213H4399H3068H7423H779H4513H2719H181811"Moab has always taken it easy— lazy as a dog in the sun, Never had to work for a living, never faced any trouble, Never had to grow up, never once worked up a sweat.H4124H7599H5271H8252H8105H7324H3627H3627H1980H1473H2940H5975H7381H417112But those days are a thing of the past. I'll put him to work at hard labor. That will wake him up to the world of hard knocks. That will smash his illusions.H3117H935H5002H3068H7971H6808H6808H7324H3627H5310H503513Moab will be as ashamed of god Chemosh as Israel was ashamed of her Bethel calf-gods, the calf-gods she thought were so great.H4124H954H3645H1004H3478H954H1008H400914For how long do you think you'll be saying, 'We're tough. We can beat anyone anywhere'?H559H1368H2428H582H442115The destruction of Moab has already begun. Her choice young soldiers are lying dead right now." The King's Decree— his full name, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies.H4124H7703H5927H5892H4005H970H3381H2874H5002H4428H8034H3068H663516"Yes. Moab's doom is on countdown, disaster targeted and launched.H343H4124H7138H935H7451H4116H396617Weep for Moab, friends and neighbors, all who know how famous he's been. Lament, 'His mighty scepter snapped in two like a toothpick, that magnificent royal staff!'H5439H5110H3045H8034H559H5797H4294H7665H8597H473118"Come down from your high horse, pampered beauty of Dibon. Sit in dog dung. The destroyer of Moab will come against you. He'll wreck your safe, secure houses.H1323H3427H1769H3381H3519H3427H6772H7703H4124H5927H7843H401319Stand on the roadside, pampered women of Aroer. Interview the refugees who are running away. Ask them, 'What's happened? And why?'H3427H6177H5975H1870H6822H7592H5127H4422H559H196120Moab will be an embarrassing memory, nothing left of the place. Wail and weep your eyes out! Tell the bad news along the Arnon river. Tell the world that Moab is no more.H4124H3001H2865H3213H2199H5046H769H4124H770321"My judgment will come to the plateau cities: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath;H4941H935H4334H776H2473H3096H415822on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim;H1769H5015H101523on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon;H7156H1014H101024on Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of Moab, far and near.H7152H1224H5892H776H4124H7350H713825"Moab's link to power is severed. Moab's arm is broken." GOD's Decree.H7161H4124H1438H2220H7665H5002H306826"Turn Moab into a drunken sot, drunk on the wine of my wrath, a dung-faced drunk, filling the country with vomit—Moab a falling-down drunk, a joke in bad taste.H7937H1431H3068H4124H5606H6892H781427Wasn't it you, Moab, who made crude jokes over Israel? And when they were caught in bad company, didn't you cluck and gossip and snicker?H3478H7814H4672H1590H1767H1697H511028"Leave town! Leave! Look for a home in the cliffs, you who grew up in Moab. Try living like a dove who nests high in the river gorge.H3427H4124H5800H5892H7931H5553H3123H7077H5676H6354H631029"We've all heard of Moab's pride, that legendary pride, The strutting, bullying, puffed-up pride, the insufferable arrogance.H8085H1347H4124H3966H1343H1363H1346H1347H7312H382030I know"—GOD's Decree—"his rooster-crowing pride, the inflated claims, the sheer nothingness of Moab.H3045H5678H5002H3068H907H621331But I will weep for Moab, yes, I will mourn for the people of Moab. I will even mourn for the people of Kir-heres.H3213H4124H2199H4124H1897H582H702532I'll weep for the grapevines of Sibmah and join Jazer in her weeping— Grapevines that once reached the Dead Sea with tendrils as far as Jazer. Your summer fruit and your bursting grapes will be looted by brutal plunderers,H1612H7643H1058H1065H3270H5189H5674H3220H5060H3220H3270H7703H5307H7019H121033Lush Moab stripped of song and laughter. And yes, I'll shut down the winepresses, stop all the shouts and hurrahs of harvest.H8057H1524H622H3759H776H4124H3196H7673H3342H1869H1959H1959H195934"Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, and the people in Jahaz will hear the cries. They will hear them all the way from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.H2201H2809H500H3096H5414H6963H6820H2773H5697H7992H4325H5249H492335"I will put a stop in Moab"—GOD's Decree—"to all hiking to the high places to offer burnt sacrifices to the gods.H7673H4124H5002H3068H5927H1116H6999H43036"My heart moans for Moab, for the men of Kir-heres, like soft flute sounds carried by the wind. They've lost it all. They've got nothing.H3820H1993H4124H2485H3820H1993H2485H582H7025H3502H6213H637"Everywhere you look are signs of mourning: heads shaved, beards cut, Hands scratched and bleeding, clothes ripped and torn.H7218H7144H2206H1639H3027H1417H4975H824238"In every house in Moab there'll be loud lamentation, on every street in Moab, loud lamentation. As with a pottery jug that no one wants, I'll smash Moab to bits." GOD's Decree.H4553H1406H4124H7339H7665H4124H3627H2656H5002H306839"Moab ruined! Moab shamed and ashamed to be seen! Moab a cruel joke! The stark horror of Moab!"H3213H2865H4124H6437H6203H954H4124H7814H4288H543940GOD's verdict on Moab. Indeed! "Look! An eagle is about to swoop down and spread its wings over Moab.H559H3068H1675H5404H6566H3671H412441The towns will be captured, the fortresses taken. Brave warriors will double up in pain, helpless to fight, like a woman giving birth to a baby.H7152H3920H4679H8610H1368H3820H4124H3117H3820H802H688742There'll be nothing left of Moab, nothing at all, because of his defiant arrogance against me.H4124H8045H5971H1431H306843"Terror and pit and trap are what you have facing you, Moab." GOD's Decree.H6343H6354H6341H3427H4124H5002H306844"A man running in terror will fall into a trap. A man climbing out of a pit will be caught in a trap. This is my agenda for Moab on doomsday." GOD's Decree.H5127H5211H6440H6343H5307H6354H5927H6354H3920H6341H935H4124H8141H6486H5002H306845"On the outskirts of Heshbon, refugees will pull up short, worn out. Fire will flame high from Heshbon, a firestorm raging from the capital of Sihon's kingdom. It will burn off Moab's eyebrows, will scorch the skull of the braggarts.H5127H5975H6738H2809H3581H784H3318H2809H3852H996H5511H398H6285H4124H6936H7588H112146That's all for you, Moab! You worshipers of Chemosh will be finished off! Your sons will be trucked off to prison camps; your daughters will be herded into exile.H188H4124H5971H3645H6H1121H3947H7628H1323H763347But yet there's a day that's coming when I'll put things right in Moab. "For now, that's the judgment on Moab."H7725H7622H4124H319H3117H5002H3068H2008H4941H4124
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