1 A Prophecy Against Moab 1 16:6-12pp — Jer 48:29-36
1 A prophecy concerning Moab: 1 Ar in Moab is ruined, 1 destroyed in a night! 1 Kir in Moab is ruined, 1 destroyed in a night!
2 Dibon goes up to its temple, 2 to its high places to weep; 2 Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. 2 Every head is shaved 2 and every beard cut off.
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth; 3 on the roofs and in the public squares 3 they all wail, 3 prostrate with weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, 4 their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz. 4 Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, 4 and their hearts are faint.
5 My heart cries out over Moab; 5 her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, 5 as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. 5 They go up the hill to Luhith, 5 weeping as they go; 5 on the road to Horonaim 5 they lament their destruction.
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up 6 and the grass is withered; 6 the vegetation is gone 6 and nothing green is left.
7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up 7 they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; 8 their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, 8 their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
9 The waters of Dimon[a] are full of blood, 9 but I will bring still more upon Dimon[b]— 9 a lion upon the fugitives of Moab 9 and upon those who remain in the land.
