3 “Take counsel,execute justice,make your shadow as the nightat the height of noon.Hide the outcasts,do not betray the fugitive.
4 Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab;be a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer.”For the extortioner has come to an end;the destroyer ceases;the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 In mercy the throne shall be established;and one who judges and seeks justiceand is diligent in righteousnessshall sit on it in truthin the tabernacle of David, judging.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab;he is very proud,even of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;but his lies shall not be so.
7 Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab;everyone shall wail.For the loss of raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;surely they are destroyed.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish,and the vine of Sibmah;the lords of the nationshave broken down its choice plants;they have come as far as Jazerand wandered through the wilderness.Her branches are stretched out;they are passed over the sea.
9 Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer,the vine of Sibmah;I will water you with my tears,O Heshbon and Elealeh.For the shouting for your summer fruitsand for your harvest has fallen away.