Oracle of Judgment on Moab

1 An oracle of Moab:

Because Ar is devastated in a night, Moab is destroyed;

because Kir of Moab is devastated in a night, it is destroyed.

2 It has gone up to the house,

and Dibon to the high places

for weeping over Nebo,

and Moab wails over Medeba.

Every head is bald,

every beard is shaved.

3 They gird themselves with sackcloth in its streets;

on its roofs and public squares everyone wails,

going down in weeping.

4 And Heshbon and Elealeh cryout,

their voice is heard as far as Jahaz;

therefore the armed ones of Moab cry out;

its soul quiversfor him.

5 My heart cries out for Moab;

its fugitives flee up to Zoar,

to Eglath-shelishiyah.

For at the ascent of Luhith it goes up it with weeping;

for on the road of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands;

for the grass has withered,

the vegetation has vanished,

there is no greenness.

7 Therefore they carry the abundance it has made

and their store of goods over the river of the poplars.

8 For a cry for help has encircled the territory of Moab,

her wailing is heard as far as Eglaim,

and her wailing as far as Beer Elim.

9 For the waters of Dimonare full of blood;

but I will place added things upon Dimon:

a lion for the survivorsof Moab

and for the remnant of the land.