Proclamation Against Moab
1 The 2 Kin. 3:4burden against Moab.
Because in the night Deut. 2:9; Num. 21:28Ar of Is. 15:1—16:14; Jer. 25:21; 48:1–47; Amos 2:1–3; Zeph. 2:8–11Moab is laid waste
And destroyed,
Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste
And destroyed,
2 He has gone up to the temple and Dibon,
To the high places to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;
Lev. 21:5; Jer. 48:37On all their heads willbe baldness,
And every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;
On the tops of their houses
And in their streets
Everyone will wail, Jer. 48:38weeping bitterly.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,
Their voice shall be heard as far as Num. 21:28; 32:3; Jer. 48:34Jahaz;
Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab will cry out;
His life will be burdensome to him.
5 "MyIs. 16:11; Jer. 48:31 heart will cry out for Moab;
His fugitives shallflee to Zoar,
Like a three-year-old heifer.
For Jer. 48:5by the Ascent of Luhith
They will go up with weeping;
For in the way of Horonaim
They will raise up a cry of destruction,
6 For the waters Num. 32:36of Nimrim will be desolate,
For the green grass has withered away;
The grass fails, there is nothing green.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gained,
And what they have laid up,
They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.
8 For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab,
Its wailing to Eglaim
And its wailing to Beer Elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon will be full of blood;
Because I will bring more upon Dimon,
2 Kin. 17:25; Jer. 50:17Lions upon him who escapes from Moab,
And on the remnant of the land."