15:1  THE MOURNFUL, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning Moab: Because in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence! Because in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence!

15:2  They are gone up to Bayith and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, and every beard is cut off [as a sign of deep sorrow and humiliation].

15:3  In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their broad places everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

15:4  And Heshbon and Elealeh [cities in possession of Moab] cry out; their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab cry out; [Moab's] life is grievous {and} trembles within him.

15:5  My heart cries out for Moab; his nobles {and} other fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah [like a heifer three years old]. For with weeping they go up the ascent of Luhith; for on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.

15:6  For the waters of Nimrim are desolations, for the grass is withered away and the new growth fails; there is no green thing.

15:7  Therefore the abundance [of possessions] they have acquired and stored away they [now] carry over the willow brook {and} to the valley of the Arabians.

15:8  For the cry [of distress] has gone round the borders of Moab; the wailing has reached to Eglaim, and the prolonged {and} mournful cry to Beer-elim.

15:9  For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; yet I [the Lord] will bring even more on Dimon--a lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.