The Moabite Stone

I, MESHA, am son of CHEMOSHGAD, King of Moab, the Dibonite. My father reigned over Moab thirty years, and I reigned after my father. And I erected this stone to CHEMOSH at Korcha, (a stone of) (sa)lvation, for he saved me from all despoilers, and let me see my desire upon all my enemies.

Nok OM(R)I, King of Israel, he oppressed Moab many days, for CHEMOSH was angry with his l(a)nd. His son succeeded him, and he also said, I will oppress Moab. In my days he said, (Let us go) and I will see my desire on him and his house, and Israel said, I shall destroy it forever.

Now OMNI took the land Medeba, and (the enemy) occupied it (in his days and in) the days of his sons, forty years. And CHEMOSH (had mercy) on it in my days; and I built Baal Meon, and made there in the ditch, and I (built) Kirjathaim. For the men of Gad dwelled in the land (Atar)oth from of old, and the K(ing of I)srael, fortified A(t)aroth, and I assaulted the wall and captured it, and killed all the w(arriors of) the wall, for the well-pleasing of CHEMOSH and Moab; and I removed from it all the spoil, and (offered) it before CHEMOSH in Kirjath; and I placed therein the men of Siran and the me(n of) Mochrath. And CHEMOSH said to me, Go, take Nebo against Israel. (And I) went in the night, and I fought against it from the break of dawn till noon, and I took it, and slew in all seven thousand (men, but I did not kill) the woman a (and ma)idens, for (I) devoted (them) to ASHTAR-CHEMOSH; and I took from it (the vessels of JEHOVAH, and offered them before CHEMOSH. And the King of Israel fortif(ied) Jahaz, and occupied it when he made war against me; and CHEMOSH drove him out before (me, and) I took from Moab two hundred men, all its poor, and placed them in Jahez, and took it to annex it to Dibon.

I built Korcha, the wall of the forest, and the wall of the city, and I built the gates thereof, and I built the towers thereof, and I built the palace, and I made the prisons for the crim(inal)s with (in the) wall. And there was no cistern in the wall in Korcha, and I said to all the people, Make for yourselves every man a cistern in his house. And I dug the ditch, for Korcha with the (chosen) men of (I)srael. I built Aroer, and I made the road across the Arnon, I built Beth-Bamoth, for it was destroyed; I built Bezer, for it was cu(t down) by the armed men of Dibon, for all Dibon was now loyal; and I reign(ed) from Bikran, which I added to my land, and I bui(lt) (Beth-Gamel), and Beth-Diblathaim, and Beth-Baal-Meon, and I placed there the p(oor) (people of) the land. And as to Horonaim (the men of Edom) dwelt therein (on the descent from the old).

And CHEMOSH said to me, Go down, make war against Horonaim, and ta(ke it. And I assaulted it), (And I took it for) CHEMOSH (restored i)t in my days. Whereof I ma(de). .year. . . and I. . .