An Oracle Concerning Moab
The oracle concerning aMoab.
Surely in a night bAr of Moab is destroyed and ruined;
Surely in a night Kir of Moab is destroyed and ruined.
2 They have gone up to the temple and to aDibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bbald and every beard is cut off.
3 In their streets they have girded themselves with asackcloth;
bOn their rooftops and in their squares
Everyone is wailing, cdissolved in weeping.
4 aHeshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the armed men of Moab make a loud shout;
His soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
Those who flee from her are as far as aZoar and Eglath‑shelishiyah,
For they go up the bascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress cover their destruction.
6 For the awaters of Nimrim are desolate.
Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has completely ceased,
There is bno green thing.
7 Therefore the aabundance they have made and stored up
They carry off over the brook of Arabim.
8 For the cry has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer‑elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;
Surely I will put added woes upon Dimon,
A alion upon those of Moab who have escaped and upon the remnant of the land.