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Rh :In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:
 * 'Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation.'
 * Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence;
 * The sword shall pursue thee.
 * Hark! a cry from Horonaim,
 * Spoiling and great destruction!
 * Moab is destroyed;
 * Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
 * For by the ascent of Luhith
 * With continual weeping shall they go up;
 * For in the going down of Horonaim
 * They have heard the distressing cry of destruction.
 * Flee, save your lives,
 * And be like a tamarisk in the wilderness.


 * For, because thou hast trusted
 * In thy works and in thy treasures,
 * Thou also shalt be taken;
 * And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity,
 * His priests and his princes together.
 * And the spoiler shall come upon every city,
 * And no city shall escape;
 * The valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed;
 * As the hath spoken.
 * Give wings unto Moab,
 * For she must fly and get away;
 * And her cities shall become a desolation,
 * Without any to dwell therein.
 * Cursed be he that doeth the work of the with a slack hand,
 * And cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
 * Moab hath been at ease from his youth,
 * And he hath settled on his lees,
 * And hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
 * Neither hath he gone into captivity;
 * Therefore his taste remaineth in him,
 * And his scent is not changed.
 * Therefore, behold, the days come,
 * Saith the ,
 * That I will send unto him them that tilt up,
 * And they shall tilt him up;
 * And they shall empty his vessels,
 * And break their bottles in pieces.
 * And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh,
 * As the house of Israel was ashamed
 * Of Beth-el their confidence.


 * How say ye: 'We are mighty men,
 * And valiant men for the war'?
 * Moab is spoiled, and they are gone up into her cities,
 * And his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,
 * Saith the King,
 * Whose name is the of hosts.
 * The calamity of Moab is near to come,
 * And his affliction hasteth fast.
 * Bemoan him, all ye that are round about him,
 * And all ye that know his name;
 * Say: 'How is the strong staff broken,
 * The beautiful rod! '
 * O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon,
 * Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst;
 * For the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee,
 * He hath destroyed thy strongholds.
 * O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch;
 * Ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth;
 * Say: 'What hath been done?'