Surely in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste
    and brought to silence,
surely in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste
    and brought to silence,
² he has gone up to the temple and to Dibon,
    the high places, to weep.
    Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba;
on all their heads shall be baldness,
    and every beard cut off.
³ In their streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth;
    on the tops of their houses and in their streets,
everyone shall wail,
    weeping abundantly.
⁴ Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh;
    their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz;
therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out;
    his life shall be grievous to him.

⁵ My heart shall cry out for Moab;
    his fugitives shall flee to Zoar,
    like a three-year-old heifer.
For by the Ascent of Luhith
    they shall go up with weeping;
for in the way of Horonaim
    they shall raise up a cry of destruction,
⁶ for the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate;
    surely the grass is withered away;
the grass fails,
    there is no green thing.
⁷ Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up,
    they shall carry away to the Brook of the Willows.
⁸ For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab;
    its wailing to Eglaim,
    and its wailing to Beer Elim.
⁹ For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood;
    for I will bring more woes on Dimon,
lions on the fugitives of Moab,
    and on the remnant of the land.