Derfor, ved mitt liv, sier Herren over hærskarene, Israels Gud, skal Moab virkelig bli som Sodoma og Ammons barn som Gomorra, overlatt til ugress og saltgruver, folketomt for alltid: resten av mitt folk skal ta deres eiendom, mitt folkes overskudd skal ta deres arv.
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.