MSB ISA Chapter 15

The Burden against Moab

(Jeremiah 48:1–47)

[This is] the burden against Moab:

Ar in Moab is ruined,

destroyed in a night!

Kir in Moab is devastated,

destroyed in a night!

2 

Dibon goes up to its temple

to weep at its high places.

Moab wails over Nebo,

as well as over Medeba.

Every head is shaved,

every beard is cut off.

3 

In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on the rooftops and in the public squares

they all wail, falling down weeping.

4 

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;

their voices are heard as far as Jahaz.

Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out;

their souls tremble within.

5 

My heart cries out over Moab;

her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

as far as Eglath-shelishiyah

With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith;

they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

6 

The waters of Nimrim are dried up,

[and] the grass is withered;

the vegetation is gone,

[and] the greenery is no more.

7 

So they carry their wealth and belongings

over the Brook of the Willows.[fn]

8 

For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab.

Their wailing reaches Eglaim;

[it is heard] vvv in Beer-elim.

9 

The waters of Dimon[fn] are full of blood,

but I will bring more upon Dimon —

a lion upon the fugitives of Moab

and upon the remnant of the land.