Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: your nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be distressful to him.
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also you shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.
From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, and even to Jahaz, have they spoken their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, like a heifer three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of its strength: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters who dwell at your left hand: and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
When I shall bring back their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring back the captivity of your captives in the midst of them:
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.
The Horims also dwelt in Seir formerly; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side of the Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did you not recover them within that time?