An Oracle Concerning Moab

¹The oracle concerning Moab.[#15:1 Or burden of]

Surely in a night Ar of Moab is destroyed and ruined;

Surely in a night Kir of Moab is destroyed and ruined.

²They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.[#15:2 Lit house]

Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;

Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

³In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;

On their rooftops and in their squares

Everyone is wailing, dissolved in weeping.

⁴Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,

Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;

Therefore the armed men of Moab make a loud shout;

His soul trembles within him.

⁵My heart cries out for Moab;

Those who flee from her are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,

For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;

Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress over their destruction.

⁶For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.[#15:6 Lit desolations]

Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has completely ceased,

There is no green thing.

⁷Therefore the abundance they have made and stored up

They carry off over the brook of Arabim.

⁸For the cry has gone around the territory of Moab,

Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.

⁹For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;[#15:9 Heb dam (a wordplay)]

Surely I will put added woes upon Dimon,

A lion upon those of Moab who have escaped and upon the remnant of the land.