Because in the night
Ar of Moab is laid waste,
and bought to silence;
because in the night
Kir of Moab is laid waste,
and bought to silence;
² He is gone up to Bajith,
and to Dibon,
the high places,
to weep:
Moab shall howl over Nebo,
and over Medeba:
on all their heads shall be baldness,
and every beard cut off.
³ In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth:
on the tops of their houses,
and in their streets,
every one shall howl,
weeping abundantly.
⁴ And Heshbon shall cry,
and Elealeh:
their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz:
therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out;
his life shall be grievous unto him.
⁵ My heart shall cry out for Moab;
his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar,
an heifer of three years old:
for by the mounting up of Luhith
with weeping shall they go it up;
for in the way of Horonaim
they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
⁶ For the waters of Nimrim
shall be desolate:
for the hay is withered away,
the grass faileth,
there is no green thing.
⁷ Therefore the abundance they have gotten,
and that which they have laid up,
shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
⁸ For the cry is gone round about [this] the borders of Moab;
the howling thereof unto Eglaim,
and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
⁹ For the waters of Dimon
shall be full of blood:
for I will bring more upon Dimon,
lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
and upon the remnant of the land.