¹⁸ ‘Come down from your glory
    and sit on the parched ground,
    you inhabitants of Daughter Dibon,
for the one who destroys Moab
    will come up against you
    and ruin your fortified cities.
¹⁹ Stand by the road and watch,
    you who live in Aroer.
Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping,
    ask them, “What has happened?”
²⁰ Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered.
    Wail and cry out!
Announce by the Arnon
    that Moab is destroyed.
²¹ Judgment has come to the plateau –
    to Holon, Jahzah and Mephaath,
²²     to Dibon, Nebo and Beth Diblathaim,
²³     to Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul and Beth Meon,
²⁴     to Kerioth and Bozrah –
    to all the towns of Moab, far and near.

‘Has Israel no sons?
    Has Israel no heir?
Why then has Molek^[a] taken possession of Gad?
    Why do his people live in its towns?