And You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and divided them into a corner. And they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, against Moab: Woe to Nebo, for it is devastated! Kiriathaim is put to shame and captured. The fortress is put to shame and shattered.
Moab shall not still be praised. In Heshbon they have plotted evil against it, saying, Come and let us cut it off as a nation. And you shall be silenced, O madmen; a sword will go after you,
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you more than the weeping of Jazer. Your tendrils have crossed the sea; they reach to the sea of Jazer. One devastating has fallen on your harvest, and on your grape crop.
From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh, to Jahaz, they have given their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, like a heifer three years old. For the waters of Nimrim also shall be desolate.
Those who fled stood powerless in the shadow of Heshbon, for a fire shall go out of Heshbon, and a flame out of the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the sons of tumult.
So behold! I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities, from his borders, the glory of the land: Bethjeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had many livestock, a very great multitude. And they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. And, behold, the place was a place for livestock.
When Israel lived in Heshbon and its daughter-towns, and in Aroer and in its daughter-towns, in all the cities by the sides of Arnon three hundred years, then why have you not delivered them in that time?