And then on the day that you cross the Jordan to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, then you shall set up {for yourselves} large stones, and you shall paint them with lime,

And {when you cross the Jordan}, you shall set up these stones that I [am] commanding you [about] {today} on Mount Ebal, and you shall paint them with lime.

[Like] legs that hang limp from a lame person, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.

And [the] peoples will be burning [to] lime-- they are burned [like] thorns [that have been] cut down in the fire.

All of the hands will hang limp, and all of {the knees will be wet with urine}.

{And then} when they say to you, 'On account of what [are] you groaning?' then you must say, 'On account of [the] report, for it [is] coming, and every heart will be weak and all hands will hang limp and every spirit will be disheartened, and all knees will go [like] water.' Look! It [is] coming, and it will happen!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.

On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, "Fear not, O Zion; your hands shall not hang limp.