Judgment on Moab

      1 The oracle concerning Moab.
          Surely in a night Ar 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 Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
          Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
          Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

3 In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;
          On their housetops and in their squares
          Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

4 Heshbon 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 Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
          For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;
          Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin.

6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.
          Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out,
          There is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance 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 lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.