11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has been quiet on his dregs, and he has not been poured out from vessel to vessel, and he has not gone into exile. Therefore his taste has remained unchanged, and his fragrance has not changed.
12 Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “and I will send to him decanters, and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash.
13 Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel were ashamed of Bethel, their trust.
14 How can you say, ‘we are warriors, and men of might for the battle.’
15 Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering,” declares the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name.
16 “The disaster of Moab is near to come, and his disaster approaches very quickly.
17 Mourn for him, all his surroundings, and all those who knew his name. Say, ‘How the staff of might is broken, the staff of glory.’