The burden of Moab
. Because in the night
Ar
of Moab
is laid waste
, and brought to silence
; because in the night
Kir
of Moab
is laid waste
, and brought to silence
;
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
.
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
.
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.
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
.
For the waters of Nimrim
shall be desolate
: for the hay
is withered away
, the grass
faileth
, there is no green thing
.
Therefore the abundance they have gotten
, and that which they have laid up
, shall they carry away
to the brook
of the willows
.
For the cry is gone round about
the borders
of Moab
; the howling
thereof unto Eglaim
, and the howling
thereof unto Beerelim
.
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
.