² Dibon went up to its temple
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at^[a] Medeba.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is chopped short.

¹² On that day the Lord God of Armies
called for weeping,^(A) for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.

³¹ They shave their heads because of you
and wrap themselves in sackcloth.
They weep over you
with deep anguish and bitter mourning.

¹⁰ I will turn your feasts into mourning^(A)
and all your songs into lamentation;^(B)
I will cause everyone^[a] to wear sackcloth^(C)
and every head to be shaved.^(D)
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son^(E)
and its outcome like a bitter day.

¹⁶ Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair^(A)
in sorrow for your precious children;
make yourselves as bald as an eagle,
for they have been taken from you into exile.^(B)