Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the Lord asks.

Moab’s destruction is at hand. Disaster will come on it quickly.

You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you.

on Kerioth and Bozrah. It will come on all the towns of Moab, both far and near.

all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.