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2Dibon 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.

3In the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the roofs and in the public squares
they all wail,
prostrate with weeping.

4Heshbon 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.

5My 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.

6The waters of Nimrim are dried up
and the grass is withered;
the vegetation is gone
and nothing green is left.

7So the wealth they have acquired and stored up
they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.

8Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

9Dimon'sMasoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate Dibon waters are full of blood,
but I will bring still more upon DimonMasoretic 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.

2Like fluttering birds
pushed from the nest,
so are the women of Moab
at the fords of the Arnon.

3“Give us counsel,
render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
at high noon.
Hide the fugitives,
do not betray the refugees.

4Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
be their shelter from the destroyer.”
The oppressor will come to an end,
and destruction will cease;
the aggressor will vanish from the land.

5In love a throne will be established;
in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
one from the houseHebrew tent of David—
one who in judging seeks justice
and speeds the cause of righteousness.

6We have heard of Moab's pride—
her overweening pride and conceit,
her pride and her insolence—
but her boasts are empty.

9So I weep, as Jazer weeps,
for the vines of Sibmah.
O Heshbon, O Elealeh,
I drench you with tears!
The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit
and over your harvests have been stilled.

10Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;
no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;
no one treads out wine at the presses,
for I have put an end to the shouting.

11My heart laments for Moab like a harp,
my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.

12When Moab appears at her high place,
she only wears herself out;
when she goes to her shrine to pray,
it is to no avail.

13This is the word the LORD has already spoken concerning Moab.14But now the LORD says: “Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab's splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”