22 And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name, and remnant, and issue, and offspring: saith the LORD.

23 And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it away with the besom of destruction, ’the LORD of Hosts.

12. Or, ‘overpower,’ ‘discomfit the nations.’21 ﬁn. Or, ‘heaps’ (of ruin); some render ‘enaemies.’

24 The LORD of Hosts hath- Sworn, saying, Surely as I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, that shall stand:

25 To break Asshur in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke shall remove from off them, and his burden shall remove from off his shoulder.

26 This is the purpose which is purposed upon the whole earth; and this the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

27 For the LORD of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his is the outstretched hand, and who shall turn it back?

28 In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden.

29 Rejoice not, Philistia, all. of thee, that the rod which smote thee is broken: for out of the ’s root shall come forth a viper, and its fruit a ﬂying fiery serpent.

30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in security; and I will kill-thy root with. famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

31 Howl, gate; cry, city; melt away, Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh from the north a smoke, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

32 And what shall one answer the messengers of a nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his ’e take refuge.

XV. 1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, is destroyed; for in a night Kit- of Moab is laid waste, is destroyed:

29. ‘viper’: rendered by many ‘basilisk.’ Cf. xi. 8.1. Or, ‘surely in a night’

2 He is gone up to the house, and Dibon, the high places, to weep; Moab howleth upon Nebo, and upon Medeba; on all his heads (is) baldness, every beard cut off.

3 In his streets they are girded with sackcloth; on her roofs and in her broad places all of her howleth, running down with weeping.

4 And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh; their voiCe is heard unto Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry out; his soul trembleth within him.

5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her bars reach unto Zoar; a heifer of three years old: for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping doth he go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolations; the grass is withered, the herbage is consumed, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and their treasure, shall they carry away over the brook of willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of ’ Moab; her howling (hath reached) unto Eglaim, and to Beer-elim her howling.

9 For ’waters of Dimon are full of blood; forI will bring more upon Dimon, a lion for the escaped of Moab, and for the remnant of the land.