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15. Prophecy Against Moab

   Ar in Moab is ruined,
   destroyed in a night!
Kir in Moab is ruined,
   destroyed in a night!
² Dibon goes up to its temple,
   to its high places to weep;
   Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.
Every head is shaved
   and every beard cut off.
³ In the streets they wear sackcloth;
   on the roofs and in the public squares
they all wail,
   prostrate with weeping.
⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
   their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
   and their hearts are faint.

    ⁵ My heart cries out over Moab;
   her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
   as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
   weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim
   they lament their destruction.
⁶ The waters of Nimrim are dried up
   and the grass is withered;
the vegetation is gone
   and nothing green is left.
⁷ So the wealth they have acquired 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 Elim.
⁹ The waters of Dimon Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood. are full of blood,
   but I will bring still more upon Dimon Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.—
a lion upon the fugitives of Moab
   and upon those who remain in the land.