Judgment on Moab
The 1oracle concerning aMoab.Surely in a night bAr of Moab is devastated and ruined;Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.Or burden ofIs 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 1temple and to aDibon, even to the high places to weep.Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;Everyone’s head is bbald and every beard is cut off.Lit houseJer 48:18, 22Lev 21:5; Jer 48:373 In their streets they have girded themselves with asackcloth;bOn their housetops and in their squaresEveryone is wailing, 1cdissolved in tears.Lit going down in weepingJon 3:6-8Jer 48:38Is 22:44 aHeshbon and Elealeh also cry out,Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;Therefore the 1armed men of Moab cry aloud;His soul trembles within him.Another reading is the loins ofNum 21:28; 32:3; Jer 48:345 My heart cries out for Moab;His fugitives are as far as aZoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,For they go up the bascent of Luhith weeping;Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress cover their ruin.Jer 48:34Jer 48:5Is 59:7; Jer 4:206 For the awaters of Nimrim are 1desolate.Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass 2died out,There is bno green thing.Lit desolationsLit come to an endIs 19:5-7; Jer 48:34Joel 1:10-12; 2:37 Therefore the aabundance which they have acquired and stored upThey carry off over the brook of 1Arabim.Or the poplarsIs 30:6; Jer 48:368 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.9 For the waters of Dimon are full of 1blood;Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon,A alion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.Heb dam (a wordplay)2 Kin 17:25; Jer 50:17