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35 I will stop the people of Moab from making burnt offerings at their places of worship and from offering sacrifices to their gods. I, the Lord, have spoken.

36 “So my heart mourns for Moab and for the people of Kir Heres, like someone playing a funeral song on a flute, because everything they owned is gone. 37 All of them have shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.

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35 In Moab I will put an end
    to those who make offerings on the high places(A)
    and burn incense(B) to their gods,”
declares the Lord.
36 “So my heart laments(C) for Moab like the music of a pipe;
    it laments like a pipe for the people of Kir Hareseth.(D)
    The wealth they acquired(E) is gone.
37 Every head is shaved(F)
    and every beard(G) cut off;
every hand is slashed
    and every waist is covered with sackcloth.(H)

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