1 A prophecy against Moab:Ar in Moab is ruined,destroyed in a night!Kir in Moab is ruined,destroyed in a night!
2 Dibon goes up to its temple,to its high places to weep;Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.Every head is shavedand every beard cut off.
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;on the roofs and in the public squaresthey all wail,prostrate with weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,and their hearts are faint.
5 My heart cries out over Moab;her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.They go up the hill to Luhith,weeping as they go;on the road to Horonaimthey lament their destruction.
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried upand the grass is withered;the vegetation is goneand nothing green is left.
7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored upthey carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
9 The waters of Dimon are full of blood,but I will bring still more upon Dimon –a lion upon the fugitives of Moaband upon those who remain in the land.