Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab - `Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with thee' (Judah) (Horsley). [Thus, nidaachay Mow'aab (H4124) is 'the outcasts of Moab, the final -ay, being the old termination of the construct state. Or else the construction is, 'the outcasts of me, Moab.'] So the Septuagint, Chaldaic, and Syriac. How just the retribution in kind, that Moab, who had refused "bread and water" to Israel when coming from Egypt, should now herself supplicate Israel for shelter and food, and supplicate in vain, became of her unhumbled pride!
For the extortioner - the Assyrian oppressor probably: Hebrew, hammeetz: wringer of milk, blood, etc. (Leviticus 1:15.)
Is as an end. By the time that Moab begs Judah for Shelter, Judah shall be in a condition to afford it, for the Assyrian "oppressors" shall have been "consumed out of the land."