Surely in a night ^(B)Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
² They have gone up to the ^[b]temple and to ^(C)Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is ^(D)bald and every beard is cut off.
³ In their streets they have girded themselves with ^(E)sackcloth;
^(F)On their housetops and in their squares
Everyone is wailing, ^[c](G)dissolved in tears.
^4 (H)Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the ^[d]armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.
⁵ My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as ^(I)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the ^(J)ascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress ^(K)over their ruin.
⁶ For the ^(L)waters of Nimrim are ^[e]desolate.
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass ^[f]died out,
There is ^(M)no green thing.
⁷ Therefore the ^(N)abundance which they have acquired and stored up
They carry off over the brook of ^[g]Arabim.
⁸ For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of ^[h]blood;
Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon,
A ^(O)lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.

“Woe to ^(B)Nebo, for it has been destroyed;
^(C)Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;
The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and ^[a]shattered.
² “There is praise for Moab no longer;
In ^(D)Heshbon they have devised calamity against her:
‘Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!’
You too, ^[b]Madmen, will be silenced;
The sword will follow after you.
³ “The sound of an outcry from ^(E)Horonaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’
⁴ “Moab is broken,
Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.
⁵ “For by the ascent of ^(F)Luhith
They will ascend with continual weeping;
For at the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the ^[c]anguished cry of destruction.
⁶ “^(G)Flee, save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
⁷ “For because of your ^(H)trust in your own achievements and treasures,
Even you yourself will be captured;
And ^(I)Chemosh will go off into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.
⁸ “A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the ^(J)plateau will be destroyed,
As the Lord has said.
⁹ “Give ^[d](K)wings to Moab,
For she will ^[e]flee away;
And her cities will become a ^(L)desolation,
Without inhabitants in them.
¹⁰ “^(M)Cursed be the one who does the Lord’s work ^(N)negligently,
And cursed be the one who restrains his ^(O)sword from blood.

¹⁴ “How can you say, ‘We are ^(V)mighty warriors,
And men valiant for battle’?
¹⁵ “Moab has been destroyed and ^[i]men have gone up to ^[j]his cities;
His choicest ^[k](W)young men have also gone down to the slaughter,”
Declares the ^(X)King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
¹⁶ “The disaster of Moab will ^(Y)soon come,
And his calamity has swiftly hastened.
¹⁷ “Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
Even all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How has the mighty ^[l](Z)scepter been broken,
A staff of splendor!’
¹⁸ “^(AA)Come down from your glory
And sit ^[m]on the parched ground,
O ^(AB)daughter dwelling in ^(AC)Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.
¹⁹ “Stand by the road and keep watch,
O inhabitant of ^(AD)Aroer;
^(AE)Ask him who flees and her who escapes
And say, ‘What has happened?’
²⁰ “Moab has been put to shame, for it has been ^[n]shattered.
Wail and cry out;
Declare by the ^(AF)Arnon
That Moab has been destroyed.

²⁸ “Leave the cities and dwell among the ^(AR)crags,
O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a ^(AS)dove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm.
²⁹ “^(AT)We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—
Of his haughtiness, his ^(AU)pride, his arrogance and ^[r]his self-exaltation.
³⁰ “I know his ^(AV)fury,” declares the Lord,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.
³¹ “Therefore I will ^(AW)wail for Moab,
Even for all Moab will I cry out;
^[s]I will moan for the men of ^(AX)Kir-heres.
³² “More than the ^(AY)weeping for ^(AZ)Jazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!
Your tendrils stretched across the sea,
They reached to the sea of Jazer;
Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest
The destroyer has fallen.
³³ “So ^(BA)gladness and joy are taken away
From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab.
And I have made the wine to ^(BB)cease from the wine presses;
No one will tread them with shouting,
The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

“Behold, one will ^(BO)fly swiftly like an eagle
And ^(BP)spread out his wings against Moab.
⁴¹ “Kerioth has been captured
And the strongholds have been seized,
So the ^(BQ)hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day
Will be like the heart of a ^(BR)woman in labor.
⁴² “Moab will be ^(BS)destroyed from being a people
Because he has ^[z]become ^(BT)arrogant toward the Lord.
⁴³ “^(BU)Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you,
O inhabitant of Moab,” declares the Lord.
⁴⁴ “The one who ^(BV)flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of their ^(BW)punishment,” declares the Lord.

“For three transgressions of ^(A)Moab and for four
I will not ^[a]revoke its punishment,
Because he ^(B)burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
² “So I will send fire upon Moab
And it will consume the citadels of ^(C)Kerioth;
And Moab will die amid ^(D)tumult,
With ^[b]war cries and the sound of a trumpet.
³ “I will also cut off the ^[c](E)judge from her midst
And slay all her ^(F)princes with him,” says the Lord.