Ar in Moab is devastated,^(B)
destroyed in a night.
Kir in Moab is devastated,
destroyed in a night.
² Dibon went up to its temple
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at^[a] Medeba.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is chopped short.
³ In its streets they wear sackcloth;
on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,
falling down and weeping.
⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.^(C)
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,
and they tremble.
⁵ My heart cries out over Moab,
whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,^(D)
to Eglath-shelishiyah;
they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;
they raise a cry of destruction
on the road to Horonaim.
⁶ The Waters of Nimrim^(E) are desolate;
the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,
and the vegetation has vanished.
⁷ So they carry their wealth and belongings
over the Wadi of the Willows.^(F)
8 For their cry echoes
throughout the territory of Moab.
Their wailing reaches Eglaim;
their wailing reaches Beer-elim.
⁹ The Waters of Dibon^[b] are full of blood,^(G)
but I will bring on Dibon even more than this –
a lion for those who escape from Moab,
and for the survivors in the land.^(H)