1 Contra Moab. - Eis o que diz o Senhor dos exércitos, Deus de Israel: Ai de Nebo, porque chegou a sua ruína! Cariataim, tomada de assalto, cobriu-se de vergonha; a praça forte ficou em tumulto e desvairada.
2 Findou-se a glória de Moab! Em Hesebon conspira-se contra ela: Vamos riscar esse povo do número das nações! E tu também, Madmen, serás reduzida ao silêncio, porque a espada te persegue.
3 Gritos elevam-se de Oronaim: Devastação! Catástrofe!
4 Moab foi abatido; gritam seus filhinhos.
5 Pela encosta de Luit chora-se; sobe-se em prantos, e pela descida de Oronaim ouvem-se clamores de angústia.
6 Fugi! Salvai-vos! Sede qual zimbro no deserto!
7 Porque puseste a confiança nos teus ídolos e nos teus tesouros, tu também serás tomada. E será levado para o exílio Camos com seus sacerdotes e chefes!
8 Em todas as cidades penetrará o devastador; nenhuma será poupada. Será destruído o vale, e o planalto devastado, como disse o Senhor.
9 Dai asas a Moab para que tome vôo, porque suas cidades transformar-se-ão em deserto.
10 Maldito aquele que faz com negligência a obra do Senhor! Maldito o que recusa o sangue à sua espada!
11 Desde a juventude, Moab vivia em paz, repousando sobre a borra, sem ser transvasada, nem exilada. Assim o sabor lhe ficou, e intato o aroma.
12 Dias, porém, virão - oráculo do Senhor -, em que lhe enviarei transvasadores que o trasfegarão, esvaziando os tonéis e quebrando os odres.
13 E Moab envergonhar-se-á de Camos, como Israel envergonhou-se de Betel que constituía sua esperança.
14 Como podeis dizer: Somos bravos, valentes guerreiros?
15 Moab está devastado; escalaram suas cidades. A flor de sua mocidade desce para a matança - oráculo do rei, cujo nome é Senhor dos exércitos.
16 A ruína de Moab é iminente, aproxima-se-lhe a largos passos a desgraça.
17 Chorai-a vós, seus vizinhos, e dizei vós, que lhe conheceis o nome: Como se partiu esse cetro poderoso, esse cetro cheio de glórias?
18 Desce de tua glória, assenta-te no solo ressecado, filha de Dibon, que moras {neste lugar}, porque o devastador de Moab sobe contra ti, para destruir tuas muralhas.
19 Detém-te no caminho e espreita, habitante de Aroer; interroga o que foge e o que escapa, perguntando-lhes: O que aconteceu?
20 Moab em ruínas cobre-se de vergonha: gritai, gemei! Anuncia ao norte de Arnon que Moab foi destruído.
21 Foi o julgamento executado sobre a terra da planície, sobre Helon, Jasa, Mefaat,
22 Dibon, Nebo e Bet-Deblataim;
23 sobre Cariataim, Bet-Gamul, Bet-Maon,
24 Cariot e Bosra, e sobre todas as cidades, próximas ou distantes da terra de Moab.
25 Foi abatido o poderio de Moab, partiu-se-lhe o braço - oráculo do Senhor.
26 Embriagai Moab, porque desafiou o Senhor. Debater-se-á no próprio vômito. E por sua vez tornar-se-á objeto de zombaria.
27 Não era Israel alvo de teu escárnio? Foi ele surpreendido entre ladrões, para que, ao falar dele, sempre abanasses a cabeça?
28 Abandonai as cidades para habitar os rochedos, habitantes de Moab, assim como faz a pomba que coloca o ninho na borda dos precipícios.
29 Conhecemos o orgulho do soberbo Moab, sua altivez, sua jactância, seu orgulho e arrogância de coração.
30 Conheço-lhe a presunção - oráculo do Senhor -, a jactância e a vaidade.
31 Eis por que gemerei sobre Moab inteiro, e sobre ele lançarei gritos; choro o povo de Quir-Heres.
32 Mais que sobre Jazer, choro sobre ti, vinha de Sabama; tuas vides se alongavam até o mar, atingindo o mar de Jazer; sobre tuas searas de vindimas lançou-se o devastador.
33 Afastaram-se a alegria e o regozijo dos vergéis da terra de Moab; fiz com que secasse o vinho nos lagares; já não se amassam as uvas entre gritos de alegria, nem a canção é a mesma canção.
34 O clamor de Hesebom sobe até Eleale, e a voz se estende até Jasa, e de Segor até Oronaim e Eglat-Selesia, porque as próprias águas de Ninrim secaram.
35 Farei desaparecer de Moab - oráculo do Senhor -, aqueles que sobem aos lugares altos para incensar seus deuses.
36 Por isso, meu coração por Moab geme, como geme a flauta; meu coração pelo povo de Quir-Heres geme, como geme a flauta. Eis a razão pela qual todo o proveito obtido se perdeu.
37 Todas as cabeças foram rapadas, e cortadas as barbas. Foram golpeadas as mãos, e os rins cobertos de sacos.
38 Sobre os tetos de Moab e em suas praças, só lamentos se ouvirão, porque despedacei Moab, qual vaso inútil - oráculo do Senhor.
39 Tudo é ruína! Gemei! Quão vergonhoso é para Moab baixar assim a cerviz! Tornou-se Moab objeto de escarmento, e de pavor para todos os vizinhos!
40 Porquanto, assim diz o Senhor: o inimigo, como águia, toma vôo, estendendo as asas sobre Moab;
41 tomam-se-lhe as cidades, arrebatam-se-lhe as fortificações, e o coração dos guerreiros de Moab será naquele dia semelhante ao coração da mulher em parto.
42 Moab foi riscado do número dos povos, porque desafiou o Senhor.
43 O terror, o fosso e o laço acercam-se de ti, ó moabita - oráculo do Senhor.
44 Quem fugir do terror cairá no fosso, e o que escapar do fosso será apanhado no laço! Porque trarei sobre ele, sobre Moab, o ano do seu castigo - oráculo do Senhor.
45 À sombra de Hesebon detiveram-se, extenuados, os fugitivos; de Hesebon, porém, jorrou um fogo, uma chama do meio do Seon, que devora os flancos de Moab e as cabeças dos filhos do tumulto.
46 Desgraçado de ti, Moab! Chegou teu fim, povo de Camos! São arrastados teus filhos ao cativeiro, e tuas filhas, aprisionadas.
47 Com o andar do tempo, porém - oráculo do Senhor -, mudarei a sorte de Moab. {Fim do julgamento acerca de Moab.}
1 Of Moab. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Sorrow on Nebo, for it has been made waste; Kiriathaim has been put to shame and is taken: the strong place is put to shame and broken down.
2 The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.
3 There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;
4 Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.
5 For by the slope of Luhith they will go up, weeping all the way; for on the way down to Horonaim the cry of destruction has come to their ears.
6 Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.
7 For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.
8 And the attacker will come against every town, not one will be safe; and the valley will be made waste, and destruction will come to the lowland, as the Lord has said.
9 Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.
10 Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.
11 From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.
12 So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken.
13 And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.
14 How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?
15 He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.
16 The fate of Moab is near, and trouble is coming on him very quickly.
17 All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!
18 Come down from your glory, O people of Dibon, and take your seat in the place of the waste; for the attacker of Moab has gone up against you, sending destruction on your strong places.
19 O daughter of Aroer, take your station by the way, on the watch: questioning him who is in flight, and her who has got away safe, say, What has been done?
20 Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.
21 And punishment has come on the lowlands; on Holon and Jahzah, and on Mephaath,
22 And on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim,
23 And on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,
24 And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.
25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.
26 Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.
27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.
28 O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.
29 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.
30 I have knowledge of his wrath, says the Lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.
31 For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.
32 My weeping for you, O vine of Sibmah, will be more than the weeping of Jazer: your branches have gone over the sea, stretching even to Jazer: destruction has come down on your summer fruits and your cut grapes.
33 All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.
34 The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.
35 And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.
36 So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.
37 For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.
38 On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.
39 How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.
40 For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.
41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.
42 And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.
43 Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.
44 He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
45 Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.
46 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! the people of Chemosh are overcome: for your sons have been taken away as prisoners, and your daughters made servants.
47 But still, I will let the fate of Moab be changed in the last days, says the Lord.