An Oracle Concerning Moab

¹The oracle of Moab.[#Jer 48; Eze 25:8–11; Am 2:1–3]

Surely in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste

and brought to silence,

surely in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste

and brought to silence,

²he has gone up to the temple and to Dibon,

the high places, to weep.

Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba;

on all their heads shall be baldness,

and every beard cut off.

³In their streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth;[#Jon 3:6–8]

on the tops of their houses and in their streets,

everyone shall wail,

weeping abundantly.

⁴Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh;

their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz;

therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out;

his life shall be grievous to him.

⁵My heart shall cry out for Moab;

his fugitives shall flee to Zoar,

like a three-year-old heifer.

For by the Ascent of Luhith

they shall go up with weeping;

for in the way of Horonaim

they shall raise up a cry of destruction,

⁶for the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate;[#Nu 32:36]

surely the grass is withered away;

the grass fails,

there is no green thing.

⁷Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up,[#Jer 48:36]

they shall carry away to the Brook of the Willows.

⁸For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab;

its wailing to Eglaim,

and its wailing to Beer Elim.

⁹For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood;

for I will bring more woes on Dimon,

lions on the fugitives of Moab,

and on the remnant of the land.