²⁹ Woe to you, Moab!^(A)
    You are destroyed, people of Chemosh!^(B)
He has given up his sons as fugitives^(C)
    and his daughters as captives^(D)
    to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Ar^(D) in Moab is ruined,^(E)
    destroyed in a night!
Kir^(F) in Moab is ruined,
    destroyed in a night!
² Dibon^(G) goes up to its temple,
    to its high places^(H) to weep;
    Moab wails^(I) over Nebo^(J) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved^(K)
    and every beard cut off.^(L)
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;^(M)
    on the roofs^(N) and in the public squares^(O)
they all wail,^(P)
    prostrate with weeping.^(Q)
4 Heshbon^(R) and Elealeh^(S) cry out,
    their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.^(T)
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
    and their hearts are faint.

⁵ My heart cries out^(U) over Moab;^(V)
    her fugitives^(W) flee as far as Zoar,^(X)
    as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
    weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim^(Y)
    they lament their destruction.^(Z)
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up^(AA)
    and the grass is withered;^(AB)
the vegetation is gone^(AC)
    and nothing green is left.^(AD)
7 So the wealth they have acquired^(AE) and stored up
    they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
⁸ Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
    their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
    their lamentation as far as Beer^(AF) Elim.
⁹ The waters of Dimon^[a] are full of blood,
    but I will bring still more upon Dimon^[b]—
a lion^(AG) upon the fugitives of Moab^(AH)
    and upon those who remain in the land.

16 Send lambs^(AI) as tribute^(AJ)
    to the ruler of the land,
from Sela,^(AK) across the desert,
    to the mount of Daughter Zion.^(AL)
2 Like fluttering birds
    pushed from the nest,^(AM)
so are the women of Moab^(AN)
    at the fords^(AO) of the Arnon.^(AP)

³ “Make up your mind,” Moab says.
    “Render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
    at high noon.
Hide the fugitives,^(AQ)
    do not betray the refugees.
⁴ Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
    be their shelter^(AR) from the destroyer.”

The oppressor^(AS) will come to an end,
    and destruction will cease;^(AT)
    the aggressor will vanish from the land.
⁵ In love a throne^(AU) will be established;^(AV)
    in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
    one from the house^[c] of David^(AW)—
one who in judging seeks justice^(AX)
    and speeds the cause of righteousness.

⁶ We have heard of Moab’s^(AY) pride^(AZ)—
    how great is her arrogance!—
of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;
    but her boasts are empty.
⁷ Therefore the Moabites wail,^(BA)
    they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
    for the raisin cakes^(BB) of Kir Hareseth.^(BC)
8 The fields of Heshbon^(BD) wither,^(BE)
    the vines of Sibmah^(BF) also.
The rulers of the nations
    have trampled down the choicest vines,^(BG)
which once reached Jazer^(BH)
    and spread toward the desert.
Their shoots spread out^(BI)
    and went as far as the sea.^[d](BJ)
9 So I weep,^(BK) as Jazer weeps,
    for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,^(BL)
    I drench you with tears!^(BM)
The shouts of joy^(BN) over your ripened fruit
    and over your harvests^(BO) have been stilled.
¹⁰ Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;^(BP)
    no one sings or shouts^(BQ) in the vineyards;
no one treads^(BR) out wine at the presses,^(BS)
    for I have put an end to the shouting.
¹¹ My heart laments for Moab^(BT) like a harp,^(BU)
    my inmost being^(BV) for Kir Hareseth.
¹² When Moab appears at her high place,^(BW)
    she only wears herself out;
when she goes to her shrine^(BX) to pray,
    it is to no avail.^(BY)