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Verse	Translation	Text
Eze 25:8	Strong Concordance	Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Because [03282] that Moab [04124] and Seir [08165] do say [0559], Behold, the house [01004] of Judah [03063] is like unto all the heathen [01471];
	King James	Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Moab, Seir, and Ammon were contiguous countries, stretching in one line from Gilead on the north to the Red Sea. They therefore naturally acted in concert, and in joint hostility to Judea. Judah is like . . . all . . . heathen--The Jews fare no better than others: it is of no use to them to serve Jehovah, who, they say, is the only true God.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Moab, Seir, and Ammon were contiguous countries, stretching in one line from Gilead on the north to the Red Sea. They therefore naturally acted in concert, and in joint hostility to Judea.

Judah is like . . . all . . . heathen--The Jews fare no better than others: it is of no use to them to serve Jehovah, who, they say, is the only true God.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Prophecies against Moab which lay south of Ammon, and shared Ammon's implacable hostility to the children of Israel. Seir was close to Moab. Edom is identified with Mount "Seir" in Eze 35:1-15; and "Seir" is therefore probably coupled with "Moab" here because, being near neighbors closely leagued together, they expressed a common exultation at Jerusalem's fall.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
Thus The prophecies upon Gentile powers, extending to (Eze 32:32) have doubtless had partial fulfilments of which history and the present condition of those cities and countries bear witness, but the mention of the day of Jehovah (Eze 30:3) makes it evident that a fulfilment in the final sense is still future. See "Day of Jehovah" (Isa 2:10-22). (See Scofield) - (Rev 19:19). Also "Armageddon" (Rev 16:14). (See Scofield) - (Rev 19:17). Those countries are once more to be the battle ground of the nations.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Against the Moabites Eze 25:8. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because Moab, like Seir, saith, Behold, like all other nations is the house of Judah: Eze 25:9. Therefore, behold, I will open the shoulder of Moab from the cities, from its cities even to the last, the ornament of the land, Beth-hayeshimoth, Baal-meon, and as far as Kiryathaim, Eze 25:10. To the sons of the east, together with the sons of Ammon, and will give it for a possession, that the sons of Ammon may no more be remembered among the nations. Eze 25:11. Upon Moab will I execute judgments; and they shall learn that I am Jehovah. - Moab has become guilty of the same sin against Judah, the people of God, as Ammon, namely, of misunderstanding and despising the divine election of Israel. Ammon gave expression to this, when Judah was overthrown, in the malicious assertion that the house of Judah was like all the heathen nations, - that is to say, had no pre-eminence over them, and shared the same fate as they. There is something remarkable in the allusion to Seir, i.e., Edom, in connection with Moab, inasmuch as no reference is made to it in the threat contained in Eze 25:9-11; and in Eze 25:12-13, there follows a separate prediction concerning Edom. Hitzig therefore proposes to follow the example of the lxx, and erase it from the text as a gloss, but without being able in the smallest degree to show in what way it is probable that such a gloss could have found admission into an obviously unsuitable place. Seir is mentioned along with Moab to mark the feeling expressed in the words of Moab as springing, like the enmity of Edom towards Israel, from hatred and envy of the spiritual birthright of Israel, i.e., of its peculiar prerogatives in sacred history. As a punishment for this, Moab was to be given up, like Ammon, to the Bedouins for their possession, and the people of the Moabites were to disappear from the number of the nations. Eze 25:9 and Eze 25:10 form one period, לבני קדם in Eze 25:10 being governed by פּתח in Eze 25:9. The shoulder of Moab is the side of the Moabitish land. In the application of the word כּתף to lands or provinces, regard is had to the position of the shoulder in relation to the whole body, but without reference to the elevation of the district. We find an analogy to this in the use of כּתף in connection with the sides of a building. In 'מהערים וגו' , the מן cannot be taken, in a privative sense, for מהיות; for neither the article הערים, nor the more emphatic מעריו מקּצהוּ, allows this; but מן indicates the direction, "from the cities onwards," "from its cities onwards, reckoning to the very last," - that is to say, in its whole extent. מקּצהוּ, as in Isa 56:11; Gen 19:4, etc. This tract of land is first of all designated as a glorious land, with reference to its worth as a possession on account of the excellence of its soil for the rearing of cattle (see the comm. on Num 32:4), and then defined with geographical minuteness by the introduction of the names of some of its cities. Beth-Hayeshimoth, i.e., house of wastes (see the comm. on Num 22:1), has probably been preserved in the ruins of Suaime, which F. de Saulcy discovered on the north-eastern border of the Dead Sea, a little farther inland (vid., Voyage en terre sainte, Paris 1865, t. i. p. 315). Baal-meon, - when written fully, Beth-Baal-Meon (Jos 13:17) - contracted into Beth-Meon in Jer 48:23, is to be sought for to the south-east of this, in the ruins of Myun, three-quarters of an hour's journey to the south of Heshbon (see the comm. on Num 32:38). Kiryathaim was still farther south, probably on the site of the ruins of El Teym (see the comm. on Gen 14:5 and Num 32:37). The Chetib קריתמה is based upon the form קריתם, a secondary form of קריתים , like דּתן, a secondary form of דּתין, in Kg2 6:13. The cities named were situated to the north of the Arnon, in that portion of the Moabitish land which had been taken from the Moabites by the Amorites before the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan (Num 21:13, Num 21:26), and was given to the tribe of Reuben for its inheritance after the defeat of the Amoritish kings by the Israelites; and then, still later, when the tribes beyond the Jordan were carried into captivity by the Assyrians, came into the possession of the Moabites again, as is evident from Isa 15:1-9 and Isa 16:1-14, and Jer 48:1, Jer 48:23, where these cities are mentioned once more among the cities of the Moabites. This will explain not only the naming of this particular district of the Moabitish country, but the definition, "from its cities." For the fact upon which the stress is laid in the passage before us is, that the land in question rightfully belonged to the Israelites, according to Num 32:37-38; Num 33:49; Jos 12:2-3; Jos 13:20-21, and that it was therefore unlawfully usurped by the Moabites after the deportation of the trans-Jordanic tribes; and the thought is this, that the judgment would burst upon Moab from this land and these cities, and they would thereby be destroyed (Hvernick and Kliefoth). על, not "over the sons of Ammon," but "in addition to the sons of Ammon." They, that is to say, their land, had already been promised to the sons of the east (Eze 25:4). In addition to this, they are now to receive Moab for their possession (Hitzig and Kliefoth). Thus will the Lord execute judgments upon Moab. Eze 25:11 sums up what is affirmed concerning Moab in Eze 25:9 and Eze 25:10, in the one idea of the judgments of God upon this people. The execution of these judgments commenced with the subjugation of the Ammonites and Moabites by Nebuchadnezzar, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem (vid., Josephus, Antt. x. 9. 7, and M. von Niebuhr, Gesch. Assurs, etc., p. 215). Nevertheless the Ammonites continued to exist as a nation for a long time after the captivity, so that Judas the Maccabaean waged war against them (1 Macc. 5:6, 30-43); and even Justin Martyr speaks of ̓Αμμανιτῶν νῦν πολὺ πληθος (Dial. Tryph. p. 272). - But Origen includes their land in the general name of Arabia (lib. i. in Job). The name of the Moabites appears to have become extinct at a much earlier period. After the captivity, it is only in Ezr 9:1; Neh 13:1, and Dan 11:41, that we find any notice of them as a people. Their land is mentioned by Josephus in the Antiq. xiii. 14. 2, and xv. 4, and in the Bell. Jud. iii. 3. 3. - A further fulfilment by the Messianic judgment, which is referred to in Zep 2:10, is not indicated in these words of Ezekiel; but judging from the prophecy concerning the Edomites (see the comm. on Eze 25:14), it is not to be excluded.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Against the Moabites

Eze 25:8. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because Moab, like Seir, saith, Behold, like all other nations is the house of Judah: Eze 25:9. Therefore, behold, I will open the shoulder of Moab from the cities, from its cities even to the last, the ornament of the land, Beth-hayeshimoth, Baal-meon, and as far as Kiryathaim, Eze 25:10. To the sons of the east, together with the sons of Ammon, and will give it for a possession, that the sons of Ammon may no more be remembered among the nations. Eze 25:11. Upon Moab will I execute judgments; and they shall learn that I am Jehovah. - Moab has become guilty of the same sin against Judah, the people of God, as Ammon, namely, of misunderstanding and despising the divine election of Israel. Ammon gave expression to this, when Judah was overthrown, in the malicious assertion that the house of Judah was like all the heathen nations, - that is to say, had no pre-eminence over them, and shared the same fate as they. There is something remarkable in the allusion to Seir, i.e., Edom, in connection with Moab, inasmuch as no reference is made to it in the threat contained in Eze 25:9-11; and in Eze 25:12-13, there follows a separate prediction concerning Edom. Hitzig therefore proposes to follow the example of the lxx, and erase it from the text as a gloss, but without being able in the smallest degree to show in what way it is probable that such a gloss could have found admission into an obviously unsuitable place. Seir is mentioned along with Moab to mark the feeling expressed in the words of Moab as springing, like the enmity of Edom towards Israel, from hatred and envy of the spiritual birthright of Israel, i.e., of its peculiar prerogatives in sacred history. As a punishment for this, Moab was to be given up, like Ammon, to the Bedouins for their possession, and the people of the Moabites were to disappear from the number of the nations. Eze 25:9 and Eze 25:10 form one period, לבני קדם in Eze 25:10 being governed by פּתח in Eze 25:9. The shoulder of Moab is the side of the Moabitish land. In the application of the word כּתף to lands or provinces, regard is had to the position of the shoulder in relation to the whole body, but without reference to the elevation of the district. We find an analogy to this in the use of כּתף in connection with the sides of a building. In 'מהערים וגו' , the מן cannot be taken, in a privative sense, for מהיות; for neither the article הערים, nor the more emphatic מעריו מקּצהוּ, allows this; but מן indicates the direction, "from the cities onwards," "from its cities onwards, reckoning to the very last," - that is to say, in its whole extent. מקּצהוּ, as in Isa 56:11; Gen 19:4, etc. This tract of land is first of all designated as a glorious land, with reference to its worth as a possession on account of the excellence of its soil for the rearing of cattle (see the comm. on Num 32:4), and then defined with geographical minuteness by the introduction of the names of some of its cities. Beth-Hayeshimoth, i.e., house of wastes (see the comm. on Num 22:1), has probably been preserved in the ruins of Suaime, which F. de Saulcy discovered on the north-eastern border of the Dead Sea, a little farther inland (vid., Voyage en terre sainte, Paris 1865, t. i. p. 315). Baal-meon, - when written fully, Beth-Baal-Meon (Jos 13:17) - contracted into Beth-Meon in Jer 48:23, is to be sought for to the south-east of this, in the ruins of Myun, three-quarters of an hour's journey to the south of Heshbon (see the comm. on Num 32:38). Kiryathaim was still farther south, probably on the site of the ruins of El Teym (see the comm. on Gen 14:5 and Num 32:37). The Chetib קריתמה is based upon the form קריתם, a secondary form of קריתים , like דּתן, a secondary form of דּתין, in Kg2 6:13. The cities named were situated to the north of the Arnon, in that portion of the Moabitish land which had been taken from the Moabites by the Amorites before the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan (Num 21:13, Num 21:26), and was given to the tribe of Reuben for its inheritance after the defeat of the Amoritish kings by the Israelites; and then, still later, when the tribes beyond the Jordan were carried into captivity by the Assyrians, came into the possession of the Moabites again, as is evident from Isa 15:1-9 and Isa 16:1-14, and Jer 48:1, Jer 48:23, where these cities are mentioned once more among the cities of the Moabites. This will explain not only the naming of this particular district of the Moabitish country, but the definition, "from its cities." For the fact upon which the stress is laid in the passage before us is, that the land in question rightfully belonged to the Israelites, according to Num 32:37-38; Num 33:49; Jos 12:2-3; Jos 13:20-21, and that it was therefore unlawfully usurped by the Moabites after the deportation of the trans-Jordanic tribes; and the thought is this, that the judgment would burst upon Moab from this land and these cities, and they would thereby be destroyed (Hvernick and Kliefoth). על, not "over the sons of Ammon," but "in addition to the sons of Ammon." They, that is to say, their land, had already been promised to the sons of the east (Eze 25:4). In addition to this, they are now to receive Moab for their possession (Hitzig and Kliefoth). Thus will the Lord execute judgments upon Moab. Eze 25:11 sums up what is affirmed concerning Moab in Eze 25:9 and Eze 25:10, in the one idea of the judgments of God upon this people.

The execution of these judgments commenced with the subjugation of the Ammonites and Moabites by Nebuchadnezzar, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem (vid., Josephus, Antt. x. 9. 7, and M. von Niebuhr, Gesch. Assurs, etc., p. 215). Nevertheless the Ammonites continued to exist as a nation for a long time after the captivity, so that Judas the Maccabaean waged war against them (1 Macc. 5:6, 30-43); and even Justin Martyr speaks of ̓Αμμανιτῶν νῦν πολὺ πληθος (Dial. Tryph. p. 272). - But Origen includes their land in the general name of Arabia (lib. i. in Job). The name of the Moabites appears to have become extinct at a much earlier period. After the captivity, it is only in Ezr 9:1; Neh 13:1, and Dan 11:41, that we find any notice of them as a people. Their land is mentioned by Josephus in the Antiq. xiii. 14. 2, and xv. 4, and in the Bell. Jud. iii. 3. 3. - A further fulfilment by the Messianic judgment, which is referred to in Zep 2:10, is not indicated in these words of Ezekiel; but judging from the prophecy concerning the Edomites (see the comm. on Eze 25:14), it is not to be excluded.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Seir - The seed of Esau, the Edomites. Seir was the mountain where they first planted themselves. Is like - Are no more a select people than others.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Moab and Seir do say - Seir means the Idumeans. It appears that both these, with the Ammonites, had made a league with Zedekiah, Jer 27:3, which they did not keep; and it is supposed that they even joined with the Chaldeans.

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¹ Moreover the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] came unto me, saying [0559],
² Son [01121] of man [0120], set [07760] thy face [06440] against mount [02022] Seir [08165], and prophesy [05012] against it,
³ And say [0559] unto it, Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Behold, O mount [02022] Seir [08165], I am against thee, and I will stretch out [05186] mine hand [03027] against thee, and I will make [05414] thee most [04923] desolate [08077].
⁴ I will lay [07760] thy cities [05892] waste [02723], and thou shalt be desolate [08077], and thou shalt know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].
⁵ Because thou hast had a perpetual [05769] hatred [0342], and hast shed [05064] the blood of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] by the force [03027] of the sword [02719] in the time [06256] of their calamity [0343], in the time [06256] that their iniquity [05771] had an end [07093]:
⁶ Therefore, as I live [02416], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069], I will prepare [06213] thee unto blood [01818], and blood [01818] shall pursue [07291] thee: sith [0518] thou hast not hated [08130] blood [01818], even blood [01818] shall pursue [07291] thee.
⁷ Thus will I make [05414] mount [02022] Seir [08165] most [08077] desolate [08077], and cut off [03772] from it him that passeth out [05674] and him that returneth [07725].
⁸ And I will fill [04390] his mountains [02022] with his slain [02491] men: in thy hills [01389], and in thy valleys [01516], and in all thy rivers [0650], shall they fall [05307] that are slain [02491] with the sword [02719].
⁹ I will make [05414] thee perpetual [05769] desolations [08077], and thy cities [05892] shall not return [07725] [03427]: and ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].
¹⁰ Because thou hast said [0559], These two [08147] nations [01471] and these two [08147] countries [0776] shall be mine, and we will possess [03423] it; whereas the LORD [03068] was there:
¹¹ Therefore, as I live [02416], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069], I will even do [06213] according to thine anger [0639], and according to thine envy [07068] which thou hast used [06213] out of thy hatred [08135] against them; and I will make myself known [03045] among them, when I have judged [08199] thee.
¹² And thou shalt know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068], and that I have heard [08085] all thy blasphemies [05007] which thou hast spoken [0559] against the mountains [02022] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], They are laid desolate [08074] [08077], they are given [05414] us to consume [0402].
¹³ Thus with your mouth [06310] ye have boasted [01431] against me, and have multiplied [06280] your words [01697] against me: I have heard [08085] them.
¹⁴ Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; When the whole earth [0776] rejoiceth [08055], I will make [06213] thee desolate [08077].
¹⁵ As thou didst rejoice [08057] at the inheritance [05159] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478], because it was desolate [08074], so will I do [06213] unto thee: thou shalt be desolate [08077], O mount [02022] Seir [08165], and all Idumea [0123], even all of it: and they shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].

¹⁷ And [2532] I saw [1492] an [1520] angel [32] standing [2476] in [1722] the sun [2246]; and [2532] he cried [2896] with a loud [3173] voice [5456], saying [3004] to all [3956] the fowls [3732] that fly [4072] in [1722] the midst of heaven [3321], Come [1205] and [2532] gather yourselves together [4863] unto [1519] the supper [1173] of the great [3173] God [2316];

¹⁴ For [1063] they are [1526] the spirits [4151] of devils [1142], working [4160] miracles [4592], which go forth [1607] [3739] [1607] unto [1909] the kings [935] of the earth [1093] and [2532] of the whole [3650] world [3625], to gather [4863] them [846] to [1519] the battle [4171] of that [1565] great [3173] day [2250] of God [2316] Almighty [3841].

¹⁹ And [2532] I saw [1492] the beast [2342], and [2532] the kings [935] of the earth [1093], and [2532] their [846] armies [4753], gathered together [4863] to make [4160] war [4171] against [3326] him that sat [2521] on [1909] the horse [2462], and [2532] against [3326] his [846] army [4753].

¹⁰ Enter [0935] into the rock [06697], and hide [02934] thee in the dust [06083], for [06440] fear [06343] of the LORD [03068], and for the glory [01926] of his majesty [01347].
¹¹ The lofty [01365] looks [05869] of man [0120] shall be humbled [08213], and the haughtiness [07312] of men [0582] shall be bowed down [07817], and the LORD [03068] alone shall be exalted [07682] in that day [03117].
¹² For the day [03117] of the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] shall be upon every one that is proud [01343] and lofty [07311], and upon every one that is lifted up [05375]; and he shall be brought low [08213]:
¹³ And upon all the cedars [0730] of Lebanon [03844], that are high [07311] and lifted up [05375], and upon all the oaks [0437] of Bashan [01316],
¹⁴ And upon all the high [07311] mountains [02022], and upon all the hills [01389] that are lifted up [05375],
¹⁵ And upon every high [01364] tower [04026], and upon every fenced [01219] wall [02346],
¹⁶ And upon all the ships [0591] of Tarshish [08659], and upon all pleasant [02532] pictures [07914].
¹⁷ And the loftiness [01365] of man [0120] shall be bowed down [07817], and the haughtiness [07312] of men [0582] shall be made low [08213]: and the LORD [03068] alone shall be exalted [07682] in that day [03117].
¹⁸ And the idols [0457] he shall utterly [03632] abolish [02498].
¹⁹ And they shall go [0935] into the holes [04631] of the rocks [06697], and into the caves [04247] of the earth [06083], for [06440] fear [06343] of the LORD [03068], and for the glory [01926] of his majesty [01347], when he ariseth [06965] to shake terribly [06206] the earth [0776].
²⁰ In that day [03117] a man [0120] shall cast [07993] his idols [0457] of silver [03701], and his idols [0457] of gold [02091], which they made each one for himself [06213] to worship [07812], to the moles [02661] [06512] and to the bats [05847];
²¹ To go [0935] into the clefts [05366] of the rocks [06697], and into the tops [05585] of the ragged rocks [05553], for [06440] fear [06343] of the LORD [03068], and for the glory [01926] of his majesty [01347], when he ariseth [06965] to shake terribly [06206] the earth [0776].
²² Cease [02308] ye from man [0120], whose breath [05397] is in his nostrils [0639]: for wherein is he to be accounted of [02803]?

³ For the day [03117] is near [07138], even the day [03117] of the LORD [03068] is near [07138], a cloudy [06051] day [03117]; it shall be the time [06256] of the heathen [01471].

³² For I have caused [05414] my terror [02851] in the land [0776] of the living [02416]: and he shall be laid [07901] in the midst [08432] of the uncircumcised [06189] with them that are slain [02491] with the sword [02719], even Pharaoh [06547] and all his multitude [01995], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].

¹⁴ And I will lay [05414] my vengeance [05360] upon Edom [0123] by the hand [03027] of my people [05971] Israel [03478]: and they shall do [06213] in Edom [0123] according to mine anger [0639] and according to my fury [02534]; and they shall know [03045] my vengeance [05360], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].

¹⁰ This shall they have for their pride [01347], because they have reproached [02778] and magnified [01431] themselves against the people [05971] of the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635].

⁴¹ He shall enter [0935] also into the glorious [06643] land [0776], and many [07227] countries shall be overthrown [03782]: but these shall escape [04422] out of his hand [03027], even Edom [0123], and Moab [04124], and the chief [07225] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983].

¹ On that day [03117] they read [07121] in the book [05612] of Moses [04872] in the audience [0241] of the people [05971]; and therein was found [04672] written [03789], that the Ammonite [05984] and the Moabite [04125] should not come [0935] into the congregation [06951] of God [0430] for [05704] ever [05769];

¹ Now when these things were done [03615], the princes [08269] came [05066] to me, saying [0559], The people [05971] of Israel [03478], and the priests [03548], and the Levites [03881], have not separated [0914] themselves from the people [05971] of the lands [0776], doing according to their abominations [08441], even of the Canaanites [03669], the Hittites [02850], the Perizzites [06522], the Jebusites [02983], the Ammonites [05984], the Moabites [04125], the Egyptians [04713], and the Amorites [0567].

¹⁰ Unto the men [01121] of the east [06924] with the Ammonites [01121] [05983], and will give [05414] them in possession [04181], that the Ammonites [01121] [05983] may not be remembered [02142] among the nations [01471].

¹¹ And I will execute [06213] judgments [08201] upon Moab [04124]; and they shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].

⁴ Behold, therefore I will deliver [05414] thee to the men [01121] of the east [06924] for a possession [04181], and they shall set [03427] their palaces [02918] in thee, and make [05414] their dwellings [04908] in thee: they shall eat [0398] thy fruit [06529], and they shall drink [08354] thy milk [02461].

²⁰ And Bethpeor [01047], and Ashdothpisgah [0798] [0794], and Bethjeshimoth [01020],
²¹ And all the cities [05892] of the plain [04334], and all the kingdom [04468] of Sihon [05511] king [04428] of the Amorites [0567], which reigned [04427] in Heshbon [02809], whom Moses [04872] smote [05221] with the princes [05387] of Midian [04080], Evi [0189], and Rekem [07552], and Zur [06698], and Hur [02354], and Reba [07254], which were dukes [05257] of Sihon [05511], dwelling [03427] in the country [0776].

² Sihon [05511] king [04428] of the Amorites [0567], who dwelt [03427] in Heshbon [02809], and ruled [04910] from Aroer [06177], which is upon the bank [08193] of the river [05158] Arnon [0769], and from the middle [08432] of the river [05158], and from half [02677] Gilead [01568], even unto the river [05158] Jabbok [02999], which is the border [01366] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983];
³ And from the plain [06160] to the sea [03220] of Chinneroth [03672] on the east [04217], and unto the sea [03220] of the plain [06160], even the salt [04417] sea [03220] on the east [04217], the way [01870] to Bethjeshimoth [01020]; and from the south [08486], under Ashdothpisgah [0798] [0794]:

⁴⁹ And they pitched [02583] by Jordan [03383], from Bethjesimoth [01020] even unto Abelshittim [063] in the plains [06160] of Moab [04124].

³⁷ And the children [01121] of Reuben [07205] built [01129] Heshbon [02809], and Elealeh [0500], and Kirjathaim [07156],
³⁸ And Nebo [05015], and Baalmeon [01186], (their names [08034] being changed [04142] and Shibmah [07643]: and gave [07121] other names [08034] [08034] unto the cities [05892] which they builded [01129].

²³ And upon Kiriathaim [07156], and upon Bethgamul [01014], and upon Bethmeon [01010],

¹ Against Moab [04124] thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the God [0430] of Israel [03478]; Woe [01945] unto Nebo [05015]! for it is spoiled [07703]: Kiriathaim [07156] is confounded [03001] and taken [03920]: Misgab [04869] is confounded [03001] and dismayed [02865].

¹ Send [07971] ye the lamb [03733] to the ruler [04910] of the land [0776] from Sela [05554] to the wilderness [04057], unto the mount [02022] of the daughter [01323] of Zion [06726].
² For it shall be, that, as a wandering [05074] bird [05775] cast out [07971] of the nest [07064], so the daughters [01323] of Moab [04124] shall be at the fords [04569] of Arnon [0769].
³ Take [0935] counsel [06098], execute [06213] judgment [06415]; make [07896] thy shadow [06738] as the night [03915] in the midst [08432] of the noonday [06672]; hide [05641] the outcasts [05080]; bewray [01540] not him that wandereth [05074].
⁴ Let mine outcasts [05080] dwell [01481] with thee, Moab [04124]; be [01933] thou a covert [05643] to them from the face [06440] of the spoiler [07703]: for the extortioner [04160] is at an end [0656], the spoiler [07701] ceaseth [03615], the oppressors [07429] are consumed [08552] out of the land [0776].
⁵ And in mercy [02617] shall the throne [03678] be established [03559]: and he shall sit [03427] upon it in truth [0571] in the tabernacle [0168] of David [01732], judging [08199], and seeking [01875] judgment [04941], and hasting [04106] righteousness [06664].
⁶ We have heard [08085] of the pride [01347] of Moab [04124]; he is very [03966] proud [01341]: even of his haughtiness [01346], and his pride [01347], and his wrath [05678]: but his lies [0907] shall not be so.
⁷ Therefore shall Moab [04124] howl [03213] for Moab [04124], every one shall howl [03213]: for the foundations [0808] of Kirhareseth [07025] shall ye mourn [01897]; surely they are stricken [05218].
⁸ For the fields [07709] of Heshbon [02809] languish [0535], and the vine [01612] of Sibmah [07643]: the lords [01167] of the heathen [01471] have broken down [01986] the principal plants [08291] thereof, they are come [05060] even unto Jazer [03270], they wandered [08582] through the wilderness [04057]: her branches [07976] are stretched out [05203], they are gone over [05674] the sea [03220].
⁹ Therefore I will bewail [01058] with the weeping [01065] of Jazer [03270] the vine [01612] of Sibmah [07643]: I will water [07301] thee with my tears [01832], O Heshbon [02809], and Elealeh [0500]: for the shouting [01959] for thy summer fruits [07019] and for thy harvest [07105] is fallen [05307].
¹⁰ And gladness [08057] is taken away [0622], and joy [01524] out of the plentiful field [03759]; and in the vineyards [03754] there shall be no singing [07442], neither shall there be shouting [07321]: the treaders [01869] shall tread out [01869] no wine [03196] in their presses [03342]; I have made their vintage shouting [01959] to cease [07673].
¹¹ Wherefore my bowels [04578] shall sound [01993] like an harp [03658] for Moab [04124], and mine inward parts [07130] for Kirharesh [07025].
¹² And it shall come to pass, when it is seen [07200] that Moab [04124] is weary [03811] on the high place [01116], that he shall come [0935] to his sanctuary [04720] to pray [06419]; but he shall not prevail [03201].
¹³ This is the word [01697] that the LORD [03068] hath spoken [01696] concerning Moab [04124] since that time [0227].
¹⁴ But now the LORD [03068] hath spoken [01696], saying [0559], Within three [07969] years [08141], as the years [08141] of an hireling [07916], and the glory [03519] of Moab [04124] shall be contemned [07034], with all that great [07227] multitude [01995]; and the remnant [07605] shall be very [04592] small [04213] and feeble [03808] [03524].

¹ The burden [04853] of Moab [04124]. Because in the night [03915] Ar [06144] of Moab [04124] is laid waste [07703], and brought to silence [01820]; because in the night [03915] Kir [07024] of Moab [04124] is laid waste [07703], and brought to silence [01820];
² He is gone up [05927] to Bajith [01006], and to Dibon [01769], the high places [01116], to weep [01065]: Moab [04124] shall howl [03213] over Nebo [05015], and over Medeba [04311]: on all their heads [07218] shall be baldness [07144], and every beard [02206] cut off [01438].
³ In their streets [02351] they shall gird [02296] themselves with sackcloth [08242]: on the tops [01406] of their houses, and in their streets [07339], every one shall howl [03213], weeping [01065] abundantly [03381].
⁴ And Heshbon [02809] shall cry [02199], and Elealeh [0500]: their voice [06963] shall be heard [08085] even unto Jahaz [03096]: therefore the armed soldiers [02502] of Moab [04124] shall cry out [07321]; his life [05315] shall be grievous [03415] unto him.
⁵ My heart [03820] shall cry out [02199] for Moab [04124]; his fugitives [01280] shall flee unto Zoar [06820], an heifer [05697] of three years old [07992]: for by the mounting up [04608] of Luhith [03872] with weeping [01065] shall they go it up [05927]; for in the way [01870] of Horonaim [02773] they shall raise up [05782] a cry [02201] of destruction [07667].
⁶ For the waters [04325] of Nimrim [05249] shall be desolate [04923]: for the hay [02682] is withered away [03001], the grass [01877] faileth [03615], there is no green thing [03418].
⁷ Therefore the abundance [03502] they have gotten [06213], and that which they have laid up [06486], shall they carry away [05375] to the brook [05158] of the willows [06155].
⁸ For the cry [02201] is gone round about [05362] the borders [01366] of Moab [04124]; the howling [03215] thereof unto Eglaim [097], and the howling [03215] thereof unto Beerelim [0879].
⁹ For the waters [04325] of Dimon [01775] shall be full [04390] of blood [01818]: for I will bring [07896] more [03254] upon Dimon [01775], lions [0738] upon him that escapeth [06413] of Moab [04124], and upon the remnant [07611] of the land [0127].

²⁶ For Heshbon [02809] was the city [05892] of Sihon [05511] the king [04428] of the Amorites [0567], who had fought [03898] against the former [07223] king [04428] of Moab [04124], and taken [03947] all his land [0776] out of his hand [03027], even unto Arnon [0769].

¹³ From thence they removed [05265], and pitched [02583] on the other side [05676] of Arnon [0769], which is in the wilderness [04057] that cometh out [03318] of the coasts [01366] of the Amorites [0567]: for Arnon [0769] is the border [01366] of Moab [04124], between Moab [04124] and the Amorites [0567].

¹³ And he said [0559], Go [03212] and spy [07200] where [0351] he is, that I may send [07971] and fetch [03947] him. And it was told [05046] him, saying [0559], Behold, he is in Dothan [01886].

³⁷ And the children [01121] of Reuben [07205] built [01129] Heshbon [02809], and Elealeh [0500], and Kirjathaim [07156],

⁵ And in the fourteenth [06240] [0702] year [08141] came [0935] Chedorlaomer [03540], and the kings [04428] that were with him, and smote [05221] the Rephaims [07497] in Ashteroth Karnaim [06255], and the Zuzims [02104] in Ham [01990], and the Emims [0368] in Shaveh Kiriathaim [07741],

³⁸ And Nebo [05015], and Baalmeon [01186], (their names [08034] being changed [04142] and Shibmah [07643]: and gave [07121] other names [08034] [08034] unto the cities [05892] which they builded [01129].

²³ And upon Kiriathaim [07156], and upon Bethgamul [01014], and upon Bethmeon [01010],

¹⁷ Heshbon [02809], and all her cities [05892] that are in the plain [04334]; Dibon [01769], and Bamothbaal [01120], and Bethbaalmeon [01010],

¹ And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] set forward [05265], and pitched [02583] in the plains [06160] of Moab [04124] on this side [05676] Jordan [03383] by Jericho [03405].

⁴ Even the country [0776] which the LORD [03068] smote [05221] before [06440] the congregation [05712] of Israel [03478], is a land [0776] for cattle [04735], and thy servants [05650] have cattle [04735]:

⁴ But before they lay down [07901], the men [0582] of the city [05892], even the men [0582] of Sodom [05467], compassed [05437] the house [01004] round [05437], both old [02205] and young [05288], all the people [05971] from every quarter [07097]:

¹¹ Yea, they are greedy [05794] [05315] dogs [03611] which can [03045] never have [03045] enough [07654], and they are shepherds [07462] that cannot understand [0995]: they all look [06437] to their own way [01870], every one [0376] for his gain [01215], from his quarter [07097].

¹² Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Because that Edom [0123] hath dealt [06213] against the house [01004] of Judah [03063] by taking [05358] vengeance [05359], and hath greatly [0816] offended [0816], and revenged [05358] himself upon them;
¹³ Therefore thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; I will also stretch out [05186] mine hand [03027] upon Edom [0123], and will cut off [03772] man [0120] and beast [0929] from it; and I will make [05414] it desolate [02723] from Teman [08487]; and they of Dedan [01719] shall fall [05307] by the sword [02719].

⁹ Therefore, behold, I will open [06605] the side [03802] of Moab [04124] from the cities [05892], from his cities [05892] which are on his frontiers [07097], the glory [06643] of the country [0776], Bethjeshimoth [01020], Baalmeon [01186], and Kiriathaim [07156],
¹⁰ Unto the men [01121] of the east [06924] with the Ammonites [01121] [05983], and will give [05414] them in possession [04181], that the Ammonites [01121] [05983] may not be remembered [02142] among the nations [01471].
¹¹ And I will execute [06213] judgments [08201] upon Moab [04124]; and they shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].

¹¹ And I will execute [06213] judgments [08201] upon Moab [04124]; and they shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].

⁸ Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Because [03282] that Moab [04124] and Seir [08165] do say [0559], Behold, the house [01004] of Judah [03063] is like unto all the heathen [01471];

³ And send [07971] them to the king [04428] of Edom [0123], and to the king [04428] of Moab [04124], and to the king [04428] of the Ammonites [01121] [05983], and to the king [04428] of Tyrus [06865], and to the king [04428] of Zidon [06721], by the hand [03027] of the messengers [04397] which come [0935] to Jerusalem [03389] unto Zedekiah [06667] king [04428] of Judah [03063];