¹摩押的絕望你們要把羊羔送給那地的掌權者，從西拉經過曠野，送到錫安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）的山。

¹Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

²摩押的居民在亞嫩渡口，像遊蕩的飛鳥，又像被趕出巢窩的鳥兒。

²For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

³“求你給我們獻謀略，作裁判！使你的影子在午間如同黑夜，把被趕逐的人隱藏起來，不可出賣逃亡的人。

³Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

⁴讓摩押那些被趕逐的人與你同住，求你作他們的隱密處，使他們脫離毀滅者的面。勒索人的必要終止，毀滅人的也將止息，欺壓人的必從這地滅絕；

⁴Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

⁵必有一個寶座在慈愛中建立；必有一位憑信實坐在上面，就是在大衛的帳棚裡；他必施行審判，尋求公平，並且迅速行公義。”

⁵A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

⁶我們聽說過摩押的驕傲，十分驕傲；也聽說過它的狂妄、驕傲和忿怒，它那浮誇的話都是虛假。

⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

⁷因此，摩押人必哀哭，各人一同為摩押哀哭，摩押人又要為吉珥．哈列設的葡萄餅哀歎憂傷。

⁷Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

⁸先知的哀歎因為希實本的田地和西比瑪的葡萄樹都衰殘了，它們美好的枝子曾醉倒了列國的君主。它的嫩枝直達雅謝，蔓延到曠野，又向外伸展，越過鹽海。

⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

⁹因此，我要為西比瑪的葡萄樹哀哭，像雅謝人的哀哭一樣。希實本和以利亞利啊！我要用眼淚浸透你；因為有吶喊的聲音臨到你夏天的果子和你收割的莊稼。

⁹Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

¹⁰歡喜快樂都從肥美的田地中被取去了；葡萄園裡必再沒有歌唱，也沒有歡呼；踹酒的不能在榨酒池裡踹出酒來；我止息了歡呼的聲音！

¹⁰Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

¹¹因此，我的心腸為摩押哀鳴，有如琴瑟；我的肺腑也為吉珥．哈列設哀哭。

¹¹Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

¹²到那時，摩押人雖朝見他們的神，雖在高處弄得疲乏不堪，又到他們的聖所去禱告，卻總不得亨通。

¹²It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

¹³以上是耶和華從前論到摩押所說的話。

¹³This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

¹⁴但現在耶和華宣告說：“三年之內，按照雇工的年數，摩押的榮耀和他所有的群眾，都必被藐視；餘下的人必稀少，微不足道。”

¹⁴But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”