| | 1 | An oracle concerning 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 way 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 | Dimon's waters are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon--a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land. | |
