¹ 耶和華如此說：摩押三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他的刑罰；因為他將以東王的骸骨焚燒成灰。

² 我卻要降火在摩押，燒滅加略的宮殿。摩押必在鬨嚷吶喊吹角之中死亡。

³ 我必剪除摩押中的審判者，將其中的一切首領和他一同殺戮。這是耶和華說的。

⁴ 耶和華如此說：猶大人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他們的刑罰；因為他們厭棄耶和華的訓誨，不遵守他的律例。他們列祖所隨從虛假的偶像使他們走迷了。

⁵ 我卻要降火在猶大，燒滅耶路撒冷的宮殿。

⁶ 耶和華如此說：以色列人三番四次地犯罪，我必不免去他們的刑罰；因他們為銀子賣了義人，為一雙鞋賣了窮人。

⁷ 他們見窮人頭上所蒙的灰也都垂涎，阻礙謙卑人的道路。父子同一個女子行淫，褻瀆我的聖名。

⁸ 他們在各壇旁鋪人所當的衣服，臥在其上，又在他們神的廟中喝受罰之人的酒。

⁹ 我從以色列人面前除滅亞摩利人。他雖高大如香柏樹，堅固如橡樹，我卻上滅他的果子，下絕他的根本。

¹⁰ 我也將你們從埃及地領上來，在曠野引導你們四十年，使你們得亞摩利人之地為業。

¹¹ 我從你們子弟中興起先知，又從你們少年人中興起拿細耳人。以色列人哪，不是這樣麼？這是耶和華說的。

¹² 你們卻給拿細耳人酒喝，囑咐先知說：不要說預言。

¹³ 看哪，在你們所住之地，我必壓你們，如同裝滿禾捆的車壓物一樣。

¹⁴ 快跑的不能逃脫；有力的不能用力；剛勇的也不能自救。

¹⁵ 拿弓的不能站立；腿快的不能逃脫；騎馬的也不能自救。

¹⁶ 到那日，勇士中最有膽量的，必赤身逃跑。這是耶和華說的。

¹ Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.

² For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.

³ Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.

⁴ All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

⁵ For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

⁶ Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷ The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.

⁸ For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

⁹ Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.

¹⁰ It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.

¹¹ But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

¹² They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

¹³ Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

¹⁴ The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.

¹⁵ The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

¹⁶ Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

¹⁷ He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.