Judgment on Moab
The oracle concerning aMoab.
Surely in a night bAr of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated 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 housetops and in their squares
Everyone is wailing, cdissolved in tears.
4 aHeshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as aZoar and Eglath‑shelishiyah,
For they go up the bascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress cover their ruin.
6 For the awaters of Nimrim are desolate.
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out,
There is bno green thing.
7 Therefore the aabundance which they have acquired and stored up
They carry off over the brook of Arabim.
8 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wail 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 bring added woes upon Dimon,
A alion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
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