²⁷ Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?^(A)
    Was she caught among thieves,^(B)
that you shake your head^(C) in scorn^(D)
    whenever you speak of her?

“For three sins of Moab,^(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because he burned to ashes^(B)
    the bones of Edom’s king,
² I will send fire on Moab
    that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.^[a](C)
Moab will go down in great tumult
    amid war cries^(D) and the blast of the trumpet.^(E)
3 I will destroy her ruler^(F)
    and kill all her officials with him,”^(G)
says the Lord.^(H)