<p class="poetry">They come from a distant land,p> <p class="poetry">from the horizon.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It is the <sc>Lordsc> with his instruments of judgment,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">coming to destroy the whole earth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">All of them respond to you, saying:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;You too have become weak like us!p> <p class="poetry">You have become just like us!p>

<p class="poetry">In their streets they wear sackcloth;p> <p class="poetry">on their roofs and in their town squaresp> <p class="poetry">all of them wail,p> <p class="poetry">they fall down weeping.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">All you who live in the world,p> <p class="poetry">who reside on the earth,p> <p class="poetry">you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains;p> <p class="poetry">you will hear a trumpet being blown.p>

<p class="poetry">along with the plants by the mouth of the river.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All the cultivated land near the riverp> <p class="poetry">will turn to dust and be blown away.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about the Valley of Vision:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">What is the reason<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that all of you go up to the rooftops?p>

<p class="poetry">They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all joy turns to sorrow;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">celebrations disappear from the earth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, you make us secure,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for even all we have accomplished, you have done for us.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You have made the nation larger,<n id="1" /> O <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you have extended all the borders of the land.p>

<p class="poetry">For tyrants will disappear,p> <p class="poetry">those who taunt will vanish,p> <p class="poetry">and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated<n id="1" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">you will be blessed,p> <p class="poetry">you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who let your ox and donkey graze.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Come near, you nations, and listen!p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention, you people!p> <p class="poetry">The earth and everything it contains must listen,p> <p class="poetry">the world and everything that lives in it.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdomp> <p class="poetry">and all her officials will disappear.<n id="1" />p>

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands.<n id="1" /> Do you really think you will be rescued?<n id="2" />

It is true, <sc>Lordsc>, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations<n id="1" /> and their lands.

<p class="poetry">I dug wellsp> <p class="poetry">and drank water.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">With the soles of my feet I dried upp> <p class="poetry">all the rivers of Egypt.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">I cry out<n id="1" /> until morning;p> <p class="poetry">like a lion he shatters all my bones;p> <p class="poetry">you turn day into night and end my life.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">What can I say?p> <p class="poetry">He has decreed and acted.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life;p> <p class="poetry">may years of life be restored to me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Restore my health<n id="2" /> and preserve my life.&#8217;p>