<p class="poetry">They brayed<n id="1" /> like animals among the bushesp> <p class="poetry">and were huddled together<n id="2" /> under the nettles.p>

<p class="poetry">I saw<n id="1" /> that thorns had grown up all over it,p> <p class="poetry">the ground<n id="2" /> was covered with weeds,p> <p class="poetry">and its stone wall was broken down.p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, as surely as I live,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies, the God of Israel,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;be certain that Moab will become like Sodomp> <p class="poetry">and the Ammonites like Gomorrah.p> <p class="poetry">They will be overrun by weeds,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">filled with salt pits,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and permanently desolate.p> <p class="poetry">Those of my people who are left<n id="3" /> will plunder their belongings;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">those who are left in Judah<n id="5" /> will take possession of their land.&#8221;p>