1 An Oracle Concerning Moab The 15:1Or burden of oracle concerning Moab.Surely in a night Ar of Moab is destroyedandruined;Surely in a night Kir of Moab is destroyedandruined.
2 They have gone up to the 15:2Lit house temple andtoDibon,evento the high places to weep.Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;Everyone’s head is baldandevery beard is cut off.
3 In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;On their rooftops and in their squaresEveryone is wailing, 15:3Lit going down in weeping dissolved in weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;Therefore 15:4 Or the loins of the armed men of Moab make a loud shout;His soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;Those who fleefromher are as far as ZoarandEglath-shelishiyah,For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress overtheirdestruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim are 15:6Lit desolations desolate.Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has 15:6Lit come to an end completely ceased,There is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have made and stored upThey carry off over the brook of 15:7Or the poplars Arabim.
8 For the cry has gone around the territory of Moab,Its wailinggoesas far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of 15:9Heb dam (a wordplay) blood;Surely I will put addedwoesupon Dimon,A lion upon those of Moab who have escaped and upon the remnant of the land.