1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. 3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive! 4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing. 7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with 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. 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen. 10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop. 11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres. 12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past. 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble."

1 你们要把羊羔送给那地的掌权者， 从西拉经过旷野， 送到锡安居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）的山。

2 摩押的居民在亚嫩渡口， 像游荡的飞鸟， 又像被赶出巢窝的鸟儿。

3 "求你给我们献谋略， 作裁判！ 使你的影子在午间如同黑夜， 把被赶逐的人隐藏起来， 不可出卖逃亡的人。

4 让摩押那些被赶逐的人与你同住， 求你作他们的隐密处， 使他们脱离毁灭者的面。勒索人的必要终止， 毁灭人的也将止息， 欺压人的必从这地灭绝；

5 必有一个宝座在慈爱中建立； 必有一位凭信实坐在上面， 就是在大卫的帐棚里； 他必施行审判， 寻求公平， 并且迅速行公义。"

6 我们听说过摩押的骄傲， 十分骄傲； 也听说过它的狂妄、骄傲和忿怒， 它那浮夸的话都是虚假。

7 因此， 摩押人必哀哭， 各人一同为摩押哀哭， 摩押人又要为吉珥．哈列设的葡萄饼哀叹忧伤。

8 因为希实本的田地和西比玛的葡萄树都衰残了， 它们美好的枝子曾醉倒了列国的君主。它的嫩枝直达雅谢， 蔓延到旷野， 又向外伸展， 越过盐海。

9 因此， 我要为西比玛的葡萄树哀哭， 像雅谢人的哀哭一样。希实本和以利亚利啊！ 我要用眼泪浸透你； 因为有吶喊的声音临到你夏天的果子和你收割的庄稼。

10 欢喜快乐都从肥美的田地中被取去了； 葡萄园里必再没有歌唱， 也没有欢呼； 踹酒的不能在榨酒池里踹出酒来； 我止息了欢呼的声音！

11 因此， 我的心肠为摩押哀鸣， 有如琴瑟； 我的肺腑也为吉珥．哈列设哀哭。

12 到那时， 摩押人虽朝见他们的神， 虽在高处弄得疲乏不堪， 又到他们的圣所去祷告， 却总不得亨通。

13 以上是耶和华从前论到摩押所说的话。

14 但现在耶和华宣告说： "三年之内， 按照雇工的年数， 摩押的荣耀和他所有的群众， 都必被藐视； 余下的人必稀少， 微不足道。"