A Pronouncement against Moab
1 A pronouncement concerning Moab: w
Ar in Moab is devastated, x
destroyed in a night.
Kir in Moab is devastated,
destroyed in a night.
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at W Medeba.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is chopped short.
3 In its streets they wear sackcloth;
on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,
falling down and weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz. y
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,
and they tremble. X
5 My heart cries out over Moab,
whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar, z
to Eglath-shelishiyah;
they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;
they raise a cry of destruction
on the road to Horonaim.
6 The Waters of Nimrim a are desolate;
the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,
and the vegetation has vanished.
7 So they carry their wealth and belongings
over the Wadi of the Willows. b
throughout the territory of Moab.
Their wailing reaches Eglaim;
their wailing reaches Beer-elim.
9 The Waters of Dibon Y are full of blood, c
but I will bring on Dibon Z even more than this—
a lion for those who escape from Moab,
and for the survivors in the land. d