Proclamation Against Moab

15 The burden against Moab.

Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid wasteAnd destroyed,Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid wasteAnd destroyed,² He has gone up to the temple^[a] and Dibon,To the high places to weep.Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;On all their heads will be baldness,And every beard cut off.³ In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;On the tops of their housesAnd in their streetsEveryone will wail, weeping bitterly.⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,Their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz;Therefore the armed soldiers^[b] of Moab will cry out;His life will be burdensome to him.

⁵ “My heart will cry out for Moab;His fugitives shall flee to Zoar,Like a three-year-old heifer.^[c]For by the Ascent of LuhithThey will go up with weeping;For in the way of HoronaimThey will raise up a cry of destruction,⁶ For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate,For the green grass has withered away;The grass fails, there is nothing green.⁷ Therefore the abundance they have gained,And what they have laid up,They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.⁸ For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab,Its wailing to EglaimAnd its wailing to Beer Elim.⁹ For the waters of Dimon^[d] will be full of blood;Because I will bring more upon Dimon,^[e]Lions upon him who escapes from Moab,And on the remnant of the land.”