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oracle concerning Moab:
Ar in Moab is laid waste,
destroyed in a night!
Kir in Moab is laid waste,
destroyed in a night!
2 Dibon has gone up to its temple,
to the high places to weep.
Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba.
Every head is shaved,
and every beard is cut off.
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the rooftops and in the public squares
everyone wails
and weeps bitterly.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
and their hearts grow faint.
5 “My heart cries out for Moab;
his fugitives flee to Zoar,
to Eglath-shelishiyah.
At the ascent to Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction.
6 The waters of Nimrim are desolate;
the grass is withered,
the vegetation gone,
the green verdure is no more.
7 So the wealth they have acquired,
and all that they have laid up,
they carry away
over the Ravine of the Willows.
8 Their outcry echoes around the land of Moab;
their wailing reaches to Eglaim,
their wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dibon are full of blood;
yet I will bring upon Dibon even more than this—
a lion for those of Moab who escape,
and for the remnant of the land.”