I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.

You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.

I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said, “Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,

Indeed, the Lord knocks down those who live in a high place, he brings down an elevated town; he brings it down to the ground, he throws it down to the dust.

Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations.”

The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord who commands armies.

Indeed, the cries of distress echo throughout Moabite territory; their wailing can be heard in Eglaim and Beer Elim.

The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and then healing them. They will turn to the Lord and he will listen to their prayers and heal them.

The fortified city (along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

Trust in the Lord from this time forward, even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector!

This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.

Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security.

He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees.”

Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

In light of all this, how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead, those who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.

It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land, O Immanuel.”

No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. No bedouin will camp there, no shepherds will rest their flocks there.

The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz. For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress; their courage wavers.