"Moab is my washpot. Moab is my washpot "Moab is my wash-pot," nothing more — a thing contemptible and despicable as compared with the eternal realities of covenant blessings; yet, for all that, there was a use for Moab, a use to be rightly understood. Moab Is My Washpot book. Moab is my washpot. "—Psalm 60:8. Psalm 60:8 King James Version (KJV). Psalm 60:8-10. (8) Moab is my washpot--i.e., probably the footbath, a figure expressing great contempt, which receives illustration from the story told of Amasis (Herod. Read 933 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A washpot was what people in the desert used to clean their feet. OAB, which had threatened Israel, was to be so completely subdued, and become so utterly contemptible as to be likened to a washpot or basin in which men wash their feet. Stephen Fry is not making this up! It's a complicated allusion, and a quote from (wait, googling) Psalm 60. ii. 172) and the golden footpan, which he had broken to pieces and made into an image of one of the gods--from base use made divine--as allegorical of his own transformation from a private person to a king. 8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.