I was beside myself with joy! There please give me your myrrh, O daughter of my princely people.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.

Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. Don’t spare them!

the mighty men and warriors, judges and prophets, omen readers and leaders,

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

The Lord who commands armies will be exalted when he punishes, the sovereign God’s authority will be recognized when he judges.

They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

The sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.

Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

All of them respond to you, saying: ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

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

So Moab wails over its demise – they all wail! Completely devastated, they moan about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.

At that time Israel will be the third member of the group, along with Egypt and Assyria, and will be a recipient of blessing in the earth.

So a strong nation will extol you; the towns of powerful nations will fear you.

unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.

Ariel is as good as dead – Ariel, the town David besieged! Keep observing your annual rituals, celebrate your festivals on schedule.