Cycle 3 - The Burden of Moab (15:1 - 16:14)
a. Judgment: Lion Attacks on Those Who Escape Moab's Destruction (15:1-9)
b. Blessing: Favor if Judah Receives Moab's Refugees who Bring a Tribute Lamb. (16:1-14)

¹ Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land
from Sela to the wilderness,
unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
² For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest,
so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

³ Take counsel,
execute judgment;
make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday;
hide the outcasts;
bewray not him that wandereth.
⁴ Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab;
be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler:
for the extortioner is at an end,
the spoiler ceaseth,
the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
⁵ And in mercy shall the throne be established:
and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David,
judging,
and seeking judgment,
and hasting righteousness.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab;
he is very proud:
even of his haughtiness,
and his pride,
and his wrath:
but his lies shall not be so.
⁷ Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab,
every one shall howl:
for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn;
surely they are stricken.
⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish,
and the vine of Sibmah:
the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof,
they are come even unto Jazer,
they wandered through the wilderness:
her branches are stretched out
,
they are gone over the sea.
⁹ Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer
the vine of Sibmah:
I will water thee with my tears,
O Heshbon,
and Elealeh:
for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest
is fallen.
¹⁰ And gladness is taken away,
and joy out of the plentiful field;
and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,
neither shall there be shouting:
the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses;
I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
¹¹ Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab,
and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.