1 Judgment on Moab The [mournful, inspired] oracle (I.e. an urgent message the prophet is under compulsion to proclaim.a burden to be carried) concerning Moab:Because in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep.Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba;Everyone’s head is shaved, and every beard is cut off [in mourning].
3 In their streets they have wrapped themselves with sackcloth;On their [flat] housetops and in their open squaresEveryone is wailing, dissolved in tears.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh [cities claimed by Moab] cry out;Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz.Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out;Moab’s soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies;There is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundancewhichthey have acquired and stored awayThey carry off over the Brook of the Willows.
8 For the cry of distress has echoed around the territory of Moab;The wailinggoesas far as Eglaim and the mournful cry to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;Yet I will bring even morewoeson Dimon—A lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.