1 The aburden against Moab. Because in the night bAr of cMoab is laid waste And destroyed, Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste And destroyed,
2 He has gone up to the1 temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep. Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; aOn all their heads willbe baldness, And every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth; On the tops of their houses And in their streets Everyone will wail, aweeping bitterly.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, Their voice shall be heard as far as aJahaz; Therefore the1 armed soldiers of Moab will cry out; His life will be burdensome to him.
5 “Mya heart will cry out for Moab; His fugitives shallflee to Zoar, Like1 a three-year-old heifer. For bby the Ascent of Luhith They will go up with weeping; For in the way of Horonaim They will raise up a cry of destruction,
6 For the waters aof Nimrim will be desolate, For the green grass has withered away; The grass fails, there is nothing green.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gained, And what they have laid up, They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.
8 For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab, Its wailing to Eglaim And its wailing to Beer Elim.
9 For the waters of1 Dimon will be full of blood; Because I will bring more upon Dimon, aLions upon him who escapes from Moab, And on the remnant of the land.”
The burden - A prophecy of the destruction of the Moabites, the inveterate enemies of the Jews, begun by the Assyrian, and finished by the Babylonian emperors. In a night - Suddenly and unexpectedly. Ar - The chief city of Moab. Kir - Another eminent city of Moab.
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