1. Here is a message about Moab:Indeed, in a night it is devastated,Ar of Moab is destroyed!Indeed, in a night it is devastated,Kir of Moab is destroyed!
2. They went up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament.Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails.Every head is shaved bare,every beard is trimmed off.
3. In their streets they wear sackcloth;on their roofs and in their town squaresall of them wail,they fall down weeping.
4. The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress;their courage wavers.
5. My heart cries out because of Moab’s plight,and for the fugitives stretched out as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah.For they weep as they make their way up the ascent of Luhith;they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim.