¹ Ad Moab hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël : Væ super Nabo, quoniam vastata est, et confusa ! capta est Cariathaim, confusa est fortis, et tremuit.

² Non est ultra exsultatio in Moab contra Hesebon : cogitaverunt malum : Venite, et disperdamus eam de gente. Ergo silens conticesces, sequeturque te gladius.

³ Vox clamoris de Oronaim, vastitas et contritio magna.

⁴ Contrita est Moab : annuntiate clamorem parvulis ejus.

⁵ Per ascensum enim Luith plorans ascendet in fletu, quoniam in descensu Oronaim hostes ululatum contritionis audierunt.

⁶ Fugite, salvate animas vestras, et eritis quasi myricæ in deserto :

⁷ pro eo enim quod habuisti fiduciam in munitionibus tuis et in thesauris tuis, tu quoque capieris : et ibit Chamos in transmigrationem, sacerdotes ejus et principes ejus simul.

⁸ Et veniet prædo ad omnem urbem, et urbs nulla salvabitur : et peribunt valles, et dissipabuntur campestria, quoniam dixit Dominus :

⁹ Date florem Moab, quia florens egredietur : et civitates ejus desertæ erunt, et inhabitabiles.

¹⁰ Maledictus qui facit opus Domini fraudulenter, et maledictus qui prohibet gladium suum a sanguine.

¹¹ Fertilis fuit Moab ab adolescentia sua, et requievit in fæcibus suis : nec transfusus est de vase in vas, et in transmigrationem non abiit : idcirco permansit gustus ejus in eo, et odor ejus non est immutatus.

¹² Propterea ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et mittam ei ordinatores et stratores laguncularum : et sternent eum, et vasa ejus exhaurient, et lagunculas eorum collident.

¹³ Et confundetur Moab a Chamos sicut confusa est domus Israël a Bethel, in qua habebat fiduciam.

¹⁴ Quomodo dicitis : Fortes sumus, et viri robusti ad præliandum ?

¹⁵ Vastata est Moab, et civitates illius succiderunt, et electi juvenes ejus descenderunt in occisionem, ait rex, Dominus exercituum nomen ejus.

¹⁶ Prope est interitus Moab ut veniat, et malum ejus velociter accurret nimis.

¹⁷ Consolamini eum, omnes qui estis in circuitu ejus : et universi qui scitis nomen ejus, dicite : Quomodo confracta est virga fortis, baculus gloriosus ?

¹⁸ Descende de gloria, et sede in siti, habitatio filiæ Dibon, quoniam vastator Moab ascendit ad te, dissipavit munitiones tuas.

¹⁹ In via sta, et prospice, habitatio Aroër : interroga fugientem, et ei qui evasit dic : Quid accidit ?

²⁰ Confusus est Moab, quoniam victus est. Ululate, et clamate : annuntiate in Arnon, quoniam vastata est Moab,

²¹ et judicium venit ad terram campestrem, super Helon, et super Jasa, et super Mephaath,

²² et super Dibon, et super Nabo, et super domum Deblathaim,

²³ et super Cariathaim, et super Bethgamul, et super Bethmaon,

²⁴ et super Carioth, et super Bosra, et super omnes civitates terræ Moab, quæ longe et quæ prope sunt.

²⁵ Abscissum est cornu Moab, et brachium ejus contritum est, ait Dominus.

²⁶ Inebriate eum, quoniam contra Dominum erectus est : et allidet manum Moab in vomitu suo, et erit in derisum etiam ipse.

²⁷ Fuit enim in derisum tibi Israël, quasi inter fures reperisses eum : propter verba ergo tua quæ adversum illum locutus es, captivus duceris.

²⁸ Relinquite civitates, et habitate in petra, habitatores Moab : et estote quasi columba nidificans in summo ore foraminis.

²⁹ Audivimus superbiam Moab, superbus est valde : sublimitatem ejus, et arrogantiam, et superbiam, et altitudinem cordis ejus.

³⁰ Ego scio, ait Dominus, jactantiam ejus, et quod non sit juxta eam virtus ejus, nec juxta quod poterat conata sit facere.

³¹ Ideo super Moab ejulabo, et ad Moab universam clamabo, ad viros muri fictilis lamentantes :

³² de planctu Jazer plorabo tibi, vinea Sabama. Propagines tuæ transierunt mare, usque ad mare Jazer pervenerunt : super messem tuam et vindemiam tuam prædo irruit.

³³ Ablata est lætitia et exsultatio de Carmelo et de terra Moab : et vinum de torcularibus sustuli, nequaquam calcator uvæ solitum celeuma cantabit.

³⁴ De clamore Hesebon usque Eleale et Jasa, dederunt vocem suam, a Segor usque ad Oronaim, vitula conternante : aquæ quoque Nemrim pessimæ erunt.

³⁵ Et auferam de Moab, ait Dominus, offerentem in excelsis, et sacrificantem diis ejus.

³⁶ Propterea cor meum ad Moab quasi tibiæ resonabit, et cor meum ad viros muri fictilis dabit sonitum tibiarum : quia plus fecit quam potuit, idcirco perierunt.

³⁷ Omne enim caput calvitium, et omnis barba rasa erit : in cunctis manibus colligatio, et super omne dorsum cilicium :

³⁸ super omnia tecta Moab, et in plateis ejus, omnis planctus : quoniam contrivi Moab sicut vas inutile, ait Dominus.

³⁹ Quomodo victa est, et ululaverunt ? quomodo dejecit cervicem Moab, et confusus est ? Eritque Moab in derisum, et in exemplum omnibus in circuitu suo.

⁴⁰ Hæc dicit Dominus : Ecce quasi aquila volabit, et extendet alas suas ad Moab.

⁴¹ Capta est Carioth, et munitiones comprehensæ sunt : et erit cor fortium Moab in die illa sicut cor mulieris parturientis,

⁴² et cessabit Moab esse populus, quoniam contra Dominum gloriatus est.

⁴³ Pavor, et fovea, et laqueus super te, o habitator Moab, dicit Dominus.

⁴⁴ Qui fugerit a facie pavoris cadet in foveam, et qui conscenderit de fovea capietur laqueo : adducam enim super Moab annum visitationis eorum, ait Dominus.

⁴⁵ In umbra Hesebon steterunt de laqueo fugientes, quia ignis egressus est de Hesebon, et flamma de medio Seon : et devorabit partem Moab, et verticem filiorum tumultus.

⁴⁶ Væ tibi, Moab : periisti, popule Chamos, quia comprehensi sunt filii tui et filiæ tuæ in captivitatem.

⁴⁷ Et convertam captivitatem Moab in novissimis diebus, ait Dominus. Hucusque judicia Moab.

¹ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

² Thus says Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;

³ and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;

⁴ and give them a command to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, You shall tell your masters:

⁵ I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

⁶ Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.

⁷ All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.

⁸ It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

⁹ But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:

¹⁰ for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

¹¹ But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

¹² I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

¹³ Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

¹⁴ Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.

¹⁵ For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.

¹⁶ Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.

¹⁷ Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?

¹⁸ But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.

¹⁹ For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,

²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

²¹ yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:

²² They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.