1 The burden of Mo’av [Seed of my Father]. Because in the night ‘Ar [A City] of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir [wall] of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;

2 He is gone up to Bayit [the temple], and to Divon [Wasting], the high places, to weep: Mo’av [Seed of my Father] shall howl over Nevo [Prophet], and over Meidva [Water of Rest]: on all their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard cut off.

3 In their streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl, weeping abundantly.

4 And Heshbon [Stronghold] shall cry, and El’aleh [God is Ascending]: their voice shall be heard [even] unto Yachatz [Trampled Down]: therefore the armed soldiers of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

5 My heart shall cry out for Mo’av [Seed of my Father]; his fugitives [shall flee] unto Tzo’ar [Insignificance], an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luchit [tablets (small, flat ornaments or jewelry)] with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonayim [two caves] [two caves] they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim [pure] shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Mo’av [Seed of my Father]; the howling thereof unto Eglayim [double reservoir], and the howling thereof unto Be’er-Elim [well of God].

9 For the waters of Dimon [river bed or silence] shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon [river bed or silence], lions upon him that escapes of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], and upon the remnant of the land.