| 1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste,
and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste,
and brought to nought. 2 They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon,
to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all
their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. 3 In their streets they
gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad
places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon crieth out,
and Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of
Moab cry aloud; his soul trembleth within him. 5 My heart crieth out for
Moab; her nobles flee unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the
ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they
raise up a cry of destruction. 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender 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 over the brook of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof
unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of
Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon
them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.
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