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.