17. Mourn for him, all who are around him, all who know his name. Say: ‘How the mighty scepter, the splendid rod, is broken!’
18. O daughter dwelling in Dibon come down from your glory and sit in thirst! For Moab’s destroyer has come to you. He has devastated your strongholds.
19. O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the road and watch— ask him fleeing and her escaping, ‘What has happened?’
20. Moab is disgraced, indeed shattered. Wail and shriek! Declare by the Arnon, Moab is ruined!
21. Judgment has come on the tableland —on Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,
22. on Dibon, Nebo, Beth-diblathaim,