And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape. The valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.

Moab is ruined, [even] his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.

behold I [will] send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it. And I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

For you shall be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown; [even] you shall be [so], O daughter of Moab; and then do you, O Arnon,

Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, [even] the choice land, the house of Beth Jeshimoth above the fountain of the city, by the seaside.

I have given him the children of Kedem in addition to the children of Ammon for an inheritance, that there may be no remembrance of the children of Ammon.

Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out [his liquor] from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.

And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets [shall be mourining]; for I have broken [him], says the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.

And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

And you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with you,

Howl, O you shepherds, and cry; lament, you rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and you shall fall as the choice rams.

You shall rule them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.

And its fall shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, [as] small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with which you might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.

For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches.