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15 The burden of Moab.
For in the night that Ar is devastated,
Moab is ruined;
for in the night that Kir is devastated,
Moab is ruined.
2 He has gone up to the shrine, to Dibon,
to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.
Every head is bald, every beard shaven.
3 In their streets they wear sackcloth.
On their housetops and in their plazas,
everyone wails, weeping profusely.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out.
Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz.
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry aloud,
his soul faints within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab.
Her fugitives are as far as Zoar
as a three year old heifer,
for by the ascent of Luhith
they go up with weeping,
for on the way of Horonaim
they raise a cry of distress.
6 The waters of Nimrim are desolate.
The grass is withered away,
the new grass withers,
there is nothing green.
7 Therefore the riches they had gotten
and whatever they have stored,
they carry over the Wadi of Willows.
8 For the cry has gone around
the borders of Moab,
the wailing to Eglaim,
and the wailing to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood,
but I will bring on Dimon even more—
a lion for those escaping from Moab,
and for those remaining in the land.
16 Send lambs to the ruler of the land
from Sela in the desert
to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion.
2 For like fluttering birds,
scattered from a nest,
so will the daughters of Moab be
at the fords of Arnon.
3 ‘Give counsel, execute justice.
Cast your shadow like night at noonday.
Hide the refugees,
do not betray the fugitive.
4 Let My refugees stay with you.
Be for Moab a hiding place
from the face of the destroyer.
For the extortion is at an end,
devastation ceases,
oppressors are gone from the land.
5 A throne will be established in mercy,
and One will sit on it in truth
—in the tent of David—
One who seeks justice
and is ready for righteousness.[a]
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab—
very proud is he—
of his haughtiness, his arrogance, his insolence,
and his dishonest boasting.
7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab—
everyone will wail!
For the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth
you will moan, utterly stricken.
8 For the fields of Heshbon have withered,
as well as the vine of Sibmah.
Rulers of nations have trampled the choice clusters,
that reached as far as Jazer and into the desert,
its branches spread out
and crossed to the sea.
9 Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer,
for the vine of Sibmah.
I will drench you with my tears,
O Heshbon and Elealeh.
For on your summer and your harvest
the battle cry has fallen.
10 Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field.
In the vineyards, no singing for joy no happy shouting,
no treading wine in the presses.
I have made the shouting stop.
11 Therefore my heart moans for Moab
like a lyre,
and my inward part for Kir-heres.
12 So it will be, when Moab is
weary upon the high place
and comes to his sanctuary to pray,
it will do him no good.
13 This is the word that Adonai spoke concerning Moab in the past. 14 But now Adonai has spoken, saying: “Within three years (as with the years of a hired worker), the glory of Moab will be disgraced; for all his large population, the remnant will be very small and feeble.”
17 The burden of Damascus:
Behold, Damascus will cease as a city
and will become a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken.
They will be for flocks—they will lie down
and no one will frighten them.
3 The fortress will also cease from Ephraim,
and the kingdom from Damascus.
The remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of Bnei-Yisrael.
It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Jacob’s Glory Fades
4 Now in that day Jacob’s glory will fade,
and the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
5 It will be as when the harvester gathers the standing grain
and reaps the heads with his arm,
as when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Only gleanings will remain,
as when beating an olive tree—
two or three olives at the very top,
four or five on a fruitful tree’s branches.
It is a declaration of Adonai God of Israel.
7 In that day a man will look to his Maker and his eyes will turn to the Holy One of Israel. 8 He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor will he look to what his fingers have made—neither the Asherah poles nor the sun-images.
9 In that day the strong cities will be like forsaken forests and treetops that were abandoned, because of Bnei-Yisrael—they will be laid waste.
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and you have not remembered the Rock of your strength.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
and set out exotic vines.
11 In the day that you plant, you fence it in,
and in the morning you made your seed to sprout—
but the harvest will be a heap
in a day of grief and incurable pain.
12 Oy! The uproar of many peoples
who roar like the roaring of the seas.
The rumbling of nations,
who rush in like the rumbling of mighty waters!
13 The nations will rush in like the rumbling of many waters,
but He will rebuke them so they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the hills before the wind,
like whirling dust before the storm.
14 At evening time—sudden terror!
Before morning, they are no more.
This is the reward of those who plunder us
and the lot of those who pillage us.
Ode of Ethiopia
18 Oy! The land of whirring wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 that sends ambassadors by sea,
in papyrus vessels upon the water.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall
and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide,
a nation powerful and oppressive,
whose land the rivers divide.
3 All you inhabitants of the world,
and dwellers on earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
look!
when a shofar is blown,
listen!
4 For so Adonai has said to me:
“I will remain quiet, and look from My dwelling place,
like shimmering heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in harvest heat.”
5 For before the harvest, as soon as blossoming is over
and flower becomes ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,
He will cut back and remove the twigs.
6 They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
and the beasts of the land.
The birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the beasts of the land will winter upon them.
7 At that time tribute will be brought to Adonai-Tzva’ot
from a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
from a people feared far and wide,
a nation powerful and oppressive,
whose land the rivers divide—
to the place of the Name of Adonai-Tzva’ot—Mount Zion!
Greetings from Paul
1 Paul, an emissary (sent not from men or by man, but by Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), 2 and all the brothers with me.
To Messiah’s communities of Galatia:
3 Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and our Lord Yeshua the Messiah— 4 who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father— 5 to Him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
No Other Gospel
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you by the grace of Messiah, to a different “good news”— 7 not that there is another, but only some who are confusing you and want to distort the Good News of Messiah. 8 But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should announce any “good news” to you other than what we have proclaimed to you, let that person be cursed! 9 As we have said before, so I now repeat: if anyone proclaims to you “good news” other than what you received, let that person be under a curse! 10 Am I now trying to win people’s approval, or God’s? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Messiah.
How Paul Was Sent Out
11 Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the Good News proclaimed by me is not man-made. 12 I did not receive it from any human, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Yeshua the Messiah.
13 For you have heard of my earlier behavior in Judaism—how I persecuted God’s community beyond measure and tried to destroy it. 14 I was even advancing within Judaism beyond many my own age among my people, being a more extreme observer of my fathers’ traditions. 15 But when God—who set me apart from birth and called me through His grace[a]—was pleased 16 to reveal His Son to me so I would proclaim Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with any human. 17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who were emissaries before me, either. Instead I went away to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.
18 Then three years later I went to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, and I stayed with him fifteen days. 19 But I saw no other emissaries except Jacob, the Lord’s brother. 20 (In what I’m writing you, before God, I do not lie.)
21 Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 22 But I was personally unknown to Messiah’s communities of Judea; 23 they only kept hearing, “The one who once persecuted us now proclaims the Good News he once tried to destroy!” 24 So they were praising God because of me.
God Really Judges
Psalm 58
1 For the music director: “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David.
2 Do you really speak of justice, O “gods”?
Do you judge with fairness, sons of man?
3 No, in heart you devise injustice.
Your hands weigh out violence on earth.
4 The wicked are strangers from the womb.
Speaking lies, they go astray from birth.
5 Their venom is like a serpent’s venom,
like a deaf cobra shutting its ear—
6 not hearing the voice of charmers,
or a cunning spell binder.
7 O God, break their teeth in their mouths.
Tear out the fangs of young lions, Adonai.
8 Let them flow away like water that runs off.
When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off.
9 Like a slug melting away as it slithers,
like a woman’s miscarriage,
may they never see the sun.
10 Even before your pots can feel a thorn
—whether alive or ablaze—
He will sweep the wicked away.
11 The righteous one will rejoice
when he beholds vengeance,
when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.
12 Then men will say:
“There really is a reward for the righteous.
There really is a God who judges on earth!”
12 Apply your heart to discipline
and your ears to words of knowledge.
Tree of Life (TLV) Translation of the Bible. Copyright © 2015 by The Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society.