13 So Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
14 How can you say: ‘We are warriors and men valiant for battle’?
15 Moab is ravaged, its towns entered, its choice young men gone down to slaughter” —It is a declaration of the King, whose Name is Adonai-Tzva’ot.
16 “Moab’s calamity will come soon, and his downfall hastens swiftly.
17 Mourn for him, all who are around him, all who know his name. Say: ‘How the mighty scepter, the splendid rod, is broken!’
18 O daughter dwelling in Dibon come down from your glory and sit in thirst! For Moab’s destroyer has come to you. He has devastated your strongholds.
19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the road and watch— ask him fleeing and her escaping, ‘What has happened?’