Judgment on Moab
The mournful, inspired oracle concerning aMoab:Because in a night bAr of Moab is devastated and ruined;Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.I.e. an urgent message the prophet is under compulsion to proclaim.Is 11:14; 25:10; Jer 48:1; Ezek 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11Num 21:28
2 They have gone up to the temple and to aDibon, to the high places to weep.Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba;Everyone’s head is bshaved, and every beard is cut off in mourning. Jer 48:37Jer 48:18, 22Lev 21:5; Jer 48:373 In their streets they have wrapped themselves with asackcloth;bOn their flat housetops and in their open squaresEveryone is wailing, cdissolved in tears.Jon 3:6-8Jer 48:38Is 22:44 aHeshbon and Elealeh cities claimed by Moab cry out;Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz.Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out;Moab’s soul trembles within him.Num 21:28; 32:3; Jer 48:345 My heart cries out for Moab;His fugitives are fleeing as far as aZoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.For they go up the bascent of Luhith weeping;For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress cover their destruction. Jer 48:5Jer 48:34Jer 48:5Is 59:7; Jer 4:206 For the awaters of Nimrim are desolate.Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies;There is bno green thing.Is 19:5-7; Jer 48:34Joel 1:10-12; 2:37 Therefore the aabundance which they have acquired and stored awayThey carry off over the Brook of the Willows.Is 30:6; Jer 48:368 For the cry of distress has echoed around the territory of Moab;The wailing goes as far as Eglaim and the mournful cry to Beer-elim.9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;Yet I will bring even more woes on Dimon—A alion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.2 Kin 17:25; Jer 50:17