<p class="poetry">For this reason my people will know my name,p> <p class="poetry">for this reason they will know<n id="1" /> at that time<n id="2" /> that I am the one who says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Here I am.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">But he does not agree with this,p> <p class="poetry">his mind does not reason this way,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for his goal is to destroy,p> <p class="poetry">and to eliminate many nations.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">So a treaty curse<n id="1" /> devours the earth;p> <p class="poetry">its inhabitants pay for their guilt.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and are reduced to just a handful of people.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">You say, &#8216;No, we will flee on horses,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">so you will indeed flee.p> <p class="poetry">You say, &#8216;We will ride on fast horses,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">so your pursuers will be fast.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">For this reason the <sc>Lordsc> is ready to show you mercy;p> <p class="poetry">he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, the <sc>Lordsc> is a just God;p> <p class="poetry">all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> helps me,p> <p class="poetry">so I am not humiliated.p> <p class="poetry">For that reason I am steadfastly resolved;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I know I will not be put to shame.p>

<p class="poetry">So listen to this, oppressed one,p> <p class="poetry">who is drunk, but not from wine!p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the powerful ruler of Israel,<n id="2" /> says this:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Ah, I will seek vengeance<n id="3" /> against my adversaries,p> <p class="poetry">I will take revenge against my enemies.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore my<n id="1" /> people will be deported<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because of their lack of understanding.p> <p class="poetry">Their<n id="3" /> leaders will have nothing to eat,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">their<n id="5" /> masses will have nothing to drink.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">As I have done to Samaria and its idols,p> <p class="poetry">so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For this reason all hands hang limp,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">every human heart loses its courage.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For this reason what they have made and stored up,p> <p class="poetry">they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.p>

<p class="poetry">We have heard about Moab&#8217;s pride,p> <p class="poetry">their great arrogance,p> <p class="poetry">their boasting, pride, and excess.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">But their boastful claims are empty!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">So Moab wails over its demise<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they all wail!p> <p class="poetry">Completely devastated, they moanp> <p class="poetry">about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">So my heart constantly sighs for Moab, like the strumming of a harp,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my inner being sighs<n id="2" /> for Kir Hareseth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">So in the east<n id="1" /> extol the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">along the seacoasts extol<n id="2" /> the fame<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">So a strong nation will extol you;p> <p class="poetry">the towns of<n id="1" /> powerful nations will fear you.p>

<p class="poetry">As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliverp> <p class="poetry">and strains and cries out because of her labor pains,p> <p class="poetry">so were we because of you, O <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Therefore, listen to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word,p> <p class="poetry">you who mock,p> <p class="poetry">you rulers of these peoplep> <p class="poetry">who reside in Jerusalem!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Egypt is totally incapable of helping.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For this reason I call herp> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Proud one<n id="2" /> who is silenced.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>