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Judgment on Moab

¹ The mournful, inspired oracle (^(F1)a burden to be carried) concerning ^(C1)Moab:

Because in a night ^(C2)Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

² They have gone up to the temple and to ^(C1)Dibon, to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba;
Everyone's head is ^(C2)shaved, and every beard is cut off in mourning. ^(VR1)

³ In their streets they have wrapped themselves with ^(C1)sackcloth;
^(C2)On their flat housetops and in their open squares
Everyone is wailing, ^(C3)dissolved in tears.

^4 (C1)Heshbon and Elealeh cities claimed by Moab cry out;
Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out;
Moab's soul trembles within him.

⁵ My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are fleeing as far as ^(C1)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.
For they go up the ^(C2)ascent of Luhith weeping;
For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress ^(C3)over their destruction. ^(VR1)

⁶ For the ^(C1)waters of Nimrim are desolate.
Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies;
There is ^(C2)no green thing.

⁷ Therefore the ^(C1)abundance which they have acquired and stored away
They carry off over the Brook of the Willows.

⁸ For the cry of distress has echoed around the territory of Moab;
The wailing goes as far as Eglaim and the mournful cry to Beer-elim.

⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;
Yet I will bring even more woes on Dimon—
A ^(C1)lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.