1 An oracle concerning Moab: |
2 Dibon goes up to its temple,
to its high places to weep;
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.
Every head is shaved
and every beard cut off. |
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the roofs and in the public squares
they all wail,
prostrate with weeping. |
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
and their hearts are faint. |
5 My heart cries out over Moab;
her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the way to Luhith,
weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim
they lament their destruction. |
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up
and the grass is withered;
the vegetation is gone
and nothing green is left. |
7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up
they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars. |
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
their lamentation as far as Beer Elim. |
9 Dimon's1 15:9 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate Dibon waters are full of blood,
but I will bring still more upon Dimon2 15:9 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate Dibon -
a lion upon the fugitives of Moab
and upon those who remain in the land. |
