Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard;
Joy, gladness, and wine-making celebrations disappear from the land.
This verse emphasizes that both prosperity and festivity are gone.
1Send the tribute lambs 2Like fluttering birds 3“Give us counsel; 4Let my fugitives stay with you; 5in loving devotion a throne will be established 6We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, 7Therefore let Moab wail; 8For the fields of Heshbon have withered, 9So I weep with Jazer 10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; 11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, 12When Moab appears on the high place, 13This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab. 14And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”