1 GLT Send a ram{ to} the ruler of the land from Selah in the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. BSB BSB: Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
2 GLT And it will happen, as a bird wanders{ from} a scattered nest,{ so} the women of Moab are{ at} the fords of the Arnon. BSB BSB: Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
3 GLT “Take counsel, execute justice; provide your shade like night in the middle of the day. Hide the fugitives; do not expose the refugees. BSB BSB: “Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
4 GLT Let them live among you, the refugees of Moab; be a hiding place for them from the face of the destroyer.” For the oppression will stop, destruction will cease, oppressors will disappear from the land. BSB BSB: Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
5 GLT And a throne will be established in covenant faithfulness; and on it will sit in truth{ one} from the tent of David. He will judge and seek justice, and rush{ to} righteousness. BSB BSB: in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.
6 GLT We have heard of the pride of Moab, great pride, his pride and his boasting and his anger, his boasts{ are} not true. BSB BSB: We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.
7 GLT So Moab wails for Moab, they all wail! For the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth they mourn. Surely{ they are} afflicted, BSB BSB: Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.
8 GLT for the fields of Heshbon have dried up,{ and} the vines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choice vines, as far as Jazer they reached, spread into the desert. Its shoots stretched out; they passed on{ to} the sea. BSB BSB: For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
9 GLT Indeed I shall weep in the weeping of Jazer, the vine of Sibmah, I shall water you{ with} my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh. For on your summer fruits and on your harvest acclamations have ceased. BSB BSB: So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
10 GLT And gladness and joy are taken away from the orchard, and in the vineyards, no rejoicing, no cheers. The treader does not tread wine in the presses; I have suppressed the shouts of joy. BSB BSB: Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
11 GLT So my heart sighs like a harp for Moab, and my inward being for Kir Hareseth. BSB BSB: Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
12 GLT And it will happen, for it will be seen that Moab is fruitless on the high place, and he will come to his temple to pray, and it will not happen. BSB BSB: When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
13 GLT This{ is} the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab previously. BSB BSB: This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.
14 GLT And now, Yahweh speaks, saying,“Within three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will disappear; of all the great multitude, the remnant{ will be} very few, no significance.” BSB BSB: And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
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