<p class="poetry">Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers!p> <p class="poetry">Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The time for you to be slaughtered has come.p> <p class="poetry">You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">On all the housetops in Moabp> <p class="poetry">and in all its public squaresp> <p class="poetry">there will be nothing but mourning.p> <p class="poetry">For I will break Moab like an unwanted jar.p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="1" />p>