Moab, you are doomed! You people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed. Your sons will be taken away captive. Your daughters will be carried away into exile.

But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed. Cry out in mourning over it! Get medicine for her wounds! Perhaps she can be healed!

Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me.

You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

“‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

“‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.

You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Then she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.

Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

You are happy because you conquered Lo-Debar. You say, “Did we not conquer Karnaim by our own power?”

Then the Lord took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, ‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’

Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”

You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.

Then take some silver and gold to make a crown and set it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

Again the Lord said to me, “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

“The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”