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An Oracle Concerning Moab

¹ This is an oracle concerning Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!² Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.³ In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.⁵ My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah; with weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

⁶ The waters of Nimrim are dried up; the grass is withered, the foliage is gone, and the vegetation has vanished.⁷ So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.⁸ For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.⁹ The waters of Dimon^(a) are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion on the fugitives of Moab, and on the remnant of the land.