你们当将羊羔作贡物奉给那地掌权的，从西拉经过旷野，送到锡安城的山。
Send a lamb of tribute / To the ruler of the land, / From Sela across the wilderness / To the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

摩押的居民在亚嫩渡口，必像游飞的鸟，如拆窝的雏。
Like wandering birds, / Like a scattered nest, / Will the daughters of Moab be / At the fords of the Arnon.

求你给我们出谋略，作决断。求你使你的影子在午间如黑夜荫庇我们，把被赶散的人隐藏起来；不可显露流荡的人。
Give us counsel, / Make a judgment concerning us. / Make your shadow at high noon / Like night to us. / Hide the outcasts; / Do not expose him who wanders.

求你让摩押被赶散的人和你同居；求你作他们的隐密处，脱离灭命者的面。当勒索人的归于无有，毁灭的事止息，欺压人的从那地除灭，
Let the outcasts of Moab / Dwell with you; / Be a hiding place to them / From the destroyer. / When the extortioner finishes / And destruction ends, / When the oppressor is completely gone from the land,

那时必有宝座因慈爱坚立，必有一位凭真实坐在其上，在大卫的帐幕中施行审判，寻求公平，速行公义。
Then will a throne be established in lovingkindness, / And upon it One will sit in truth / In the tent of David, / Judging and pursuing justice / And hastening righteousness.

我们听说摩押的骄傲，是极其骄傲，听说过他的狂妄、骄傲、忿怒；他夸大的话都是不真确的。
We have heard of the pride of Moab — / He is extremely proud — / Of his haughtiness and pride and insolence; / His boastings are all untrue.

因此，摩押人必为摩押哀号；他们都要哀号。你们摩押人要为吉珥哈列设的葡萄饼哀叹，极其忧伤。
Therefore Moab will howl for Moab; / They all will howl. / For the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth / You will mourn, utterly stricken.

因为希实本的田地和西比玛的葡萄树，都衰残了。列国的君主践踏其上美好的枝子，这枝子达到雅谢，蔓延到旷野；嫩枝向外探出，直探过盐海。
Because the fields of Heshbon have withered, / And the vine of Sibmah, too. / The lords of the nations / Have trampled under its choicest vines, / Which reached as far as Jazer, / Which meandered into the desert. / Its shoots spread abroad; / They crossed over to the sea.

因此，我要为西比玛的葡萄树哀哭，与雅谢人哀哭一样；希实本和以利亚利啊，我要以眼泪浇透你；因为在你夏天的果子并你收割的庄稼之上，收割的欢呼已经不再有了。
Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, / For the vine of Sibmah; / I will soak you with my tears, / Heshbon and Elealeh. / For the harvest shout is hushed / Over your summer fruit and over your reapings.

喜乐和欢腾从肥美的田中被取去了；在葡萄园里必无欢唱，也无欢呼的声音。踹酒的在酒醡中不得踹出酒来；我使收割的欢呼止息了。
Rejoicing is taken away, and exultation from the fruited field; / In the vineyards there will be no singing for joy; no shouts will be uttered. / The treader will not tread out wine in the presses — / I have made the harvest shout stop.

因此，我的心腹为摩押哀鸣如琴，我的里面为吉珥哈列设也是如此。
Therefore for Moab my bowels will moan like a lyre, / And my inward parts for Kir-heres.

摩押人尽管朝见他们的神，在高处使自己筋疲力尽，又到他们的圣所祷告，必没有成效。
And when Moab appears, / When they weary themselves at their high place, / And come to their sanctuary to pray, / It will not avail.

这是耶和华从前所说关于摩押的话。
This is the word which Jehovah spoke concerning Moab long ago.

但现在耶和华说，三年之内，照雇工年数的算法，摩押的荣耀及其所有的群众，必被藐视，余剩的人必稀少无几。
And now Jehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, like the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be disgraced, with all its great multitude, and its remnant will be small — a mere trifle, nothing great.