1 The burden of Moab: For in the night of being laid waste, Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste, Kir of Moab is destroyed!
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
3 In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.
4 And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh: their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out: his soul trembleth in him.
5 My heart crieth out for Moab; their fugitives {have fled} unto Zoar, unto Eglath-Sheli-shijah: for by the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, do they carry away to the torrent of the willows.
8 For the cry goeth round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, for I will lay yet more upon Dimon: a lion upon them that are escaped of Moab, and upon that which remaineth of the land.
1 מַשָּׂא מֹואָב כִּי בְּלֵיל שֻׁדַּד עָר מֹואָב נִדְמָה כִּי בְּלֵיל שֻׁדַּד קִיר־מֹואָב נִדְמָה׃
2 עָלָה הַבַּיִת וְדִיבֹן הַבָּמֹות לְבֶכִי עַל־נְבֹו וְעַל מֵידְבָא מֹואָב יְיֵלִיל בְּכָל־רֹאשָׁיו קָרְחָה כָּל־זָקָן גְּרוּעָה׃
3 בְּחוּצֹתָיו חָגְרוּ שָׂק עַל גַּגֹּותֶיהָ וּבִרְחֹבֹתֶיהָ כֻּלֹּה יְיֵלִיל יֹרֵד בַּבֶּכִי׃
4 וַתִּזְעַק חֶשְׁבֹּון וְאֶלְעָלֵה עַד־יַהַץ נִשְׁמַע קֹולָם עַל־כֵּן חֲלֻצֵי מֹואָב יָרִיעוּ נַפְשֹׁו יָרְעָה לֹּו׃
5 לִבִּי לְמֹואָב יִזְעָק בְּרִיחֶהָ עַד־צֹעַר עֶגְלַת שְׁלִשִׁיָּה כִּי ׀ מַעֲלֵה הַלּוּחִית בִּבְכִי יַעֲלֶה־בֹּו כִּי דֶּרֶךְ חֹורֹנַיִם זַעֲקַת־שֶׁבֶר יְעֹעֵרוּ׃
6 כִּי־מֵי נִמְרִים מְשַׁמֹּות יִהְיוּ כִּי־יָבֵשׁ חָצִיר כָּלָה דֶשֶׁא יֶרֶק לֹא הָיָה׃
7 עַל־כֵּן יִתְרָה עָשָׂה וּפְקֻדָּתָם עַל נַחַל הָעֲרָבִים יִשָּׂאוּם׃
8 כִּי־הִקִּיפָה הַזְּעָקָה אֶת־גְּבוּל מֹואָב עַד־אֶגְלַיִם יִלְלָתָהּ וּבְאֵר אֵילִים יִלְלָתָהּ׃
9 כִּי מֵי דִימֹון מָלְאוּ דָם כִּי־אָשִׁית עַל־דִּימֹון נֹוסָפֹות לִפְלֵיטַת מֹואָב אַרְיֵה וְלִשְׁאֵרִית אֲדָמָה׃