1The 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. 2They 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 . 3In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth ; on their housetops , and in their broad places , every one waileth, weeping abundantly . 4And 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 .
The Mourning of Moab
5My 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 . 6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate ; for the grass is withered away , the tender grass faileth , there is no green thing . 7Therefore the abundance they have gotten , and that which they have laid up , shall they carry away over the brook of the willows . 8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab ; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim. 9For 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.