| 1 | The mournful, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning Moab: Because in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence! Because in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence! |
| 2 | They are gone up to Bayith and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, and every beard is cut off [as a sign of deep sorrow and humiliation]. |
| 3 | In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their broad places everyone wails, weeping abundantly. |
| 4 | And Heshbon and Elealeh [cities in possession of Moab] cry out; their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab cry out; [Moab’s] life is grievous
and
trembles within him. |
| 5 | My heart cries out for Moab; his nobles
and
other fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah [like a heifer three years old]. For with weeping they go up the ascent of Luhith; for on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction. |
| 6 | For the waters of Nimrim are desolations, for the grass is withered away and the new growth fails; there is no green thing. |
| 7 | Therefore the abundance [of possessions] they have acquired and stored away they [now] carry over the willow brook
and
to the valley of the Arabians. |
| 8 | For the cry [of distress] has gone round the borders of Moab; the wailing has reached to Eglaim, and the prolonged
and
mournful cry to Beer-elim. |
| 9 | For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; yet I [the Lord] will bring even more on Dimon—a lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land. |
Cross references:
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Isaiah 15:2 : Jer. 48:37.
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Isaiah 15:5 : Jer. 48:5.
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