The Lord Will Judge Moab

15:1 Here is a message about Moab:
Indeed in a night it is devastated,
Ar of Moab is destroyed.
Indeed in a night it is devastated,
Kir of Moab is destroyed.
15:2 They went up to the temple,¹
the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament.²
Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba³ Moab wails.
Every head is shaved bare,
every beard is trimmed off.⁴
15:3 In their streets they wear sackcloth,
on their roofs and in their town squares
all of them wail,
they fall down weeping.
15:4 The people of⁵ Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.
For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress,
their courage wavers.⁶
15:5 My heart cries out because of Moab’s plight;⁷
and for the fugitives⁸ stretched out⁹ as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah.
For they weep as they walk up the ascent of Luhith;
they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim.¹⁰
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim are gone,¹¹
the grass is dried up,
the vegetation has disappeared,
and there are no plants.
15:7 For this reason what they have made and stored up,
they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.
15:8 Indeed the cries of distress echo throughout Moabite territory,
their wailing can be heard in Eglaim and Beer Elim.¹²
15:9 Indeed the waters of Dimon¹³ are full of blood!
Indeed I will heap even more trouble on Dimon.¹⁴
A lion will attack¹⁵ the Moabite fugitives,
and the people left in the land.