^1. An oracle concerning Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!

^2. Dibon 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.

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

^4. Heshbon 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.

^5. My 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.

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

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

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

^9. Dimon's [2] waters are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon [1] -- a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.