48 26 "Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Yahweh; so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision. 48 27 Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
48 28 "Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge. 48 29 We have heard of the pride of Moab - he is very proud - of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 48 30 I know his insolence, says Yahweh; his boasts are false, his deeds are false. 48 31 Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-heres I mourn. 48 32 More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached as far as Jazer; upon your summer fruits and your vintage the destroyer has fallen. 48 33 Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the wine presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.
48 34 "Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate. 48 35 And I will bring to an end in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and burns incense to his god. 48 36 Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-heres; therefore the riches they gained have perished.
48 37 "For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; upon all the hands are gashes, and on the loins is sackcloth. 48 38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, says Yahweh. 48 39 How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are round about him."