15:1 The pronouncement concerning Moab:
Certainly in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
15:2 ①The people have gone up to the ②temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.
▷ ①Lit He has gone; i.e., Moab, meaning the people of Moab ②Lit house
15:3 In their streets they have put on sackcloth;
On their housetops and in their public squares
Everyone is wailing, ①overcome with weeping.
▷ ①Lit going down in weeping
15:4 Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the ①armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.
▷ ①Another reading is the loins of
15:5 My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;
Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their collapse.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim are ①desolate.
Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died,
There is no greenery.
▷ ①Lit desolations
15:7 Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up,
They carry it off over the brook of ①Arabim.
▷ ①Or the poplars
15:8 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its howling to Beer-elim.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of ①blood;
I will certainly bring added woes upon Dimon,
A lion upon the fugitives of Moab and the remnant of the land.
▷ ①Heb dam (a wordplay)