Contemporary English Version Moab Will Be Punished1 This is a message about Moab: The towns of Ar and Kir were destroyed in a night. Moab is left in ruins! 2Everyone in Dibon has gone up to the temple+ and the shrines to cry and weep. All of Moab is crying. Heads and beards are shaved+ because of what happened at Nebo and Medeba. 3In the towns and at home, everyone wears sackcloth and cries loud and long. 4From Heshbon and Elealeh, weeping is heard in Jahaz; Moab's warriors scream while trembling with fear. Pity Moab5I pity Moab! Its people are running to Zoar and to Eglath-Shelishiyah. They cry on their way up to the town of Luhith; on the road to Horonaim they tell of disasters. 6The streams of Nimrim and the grasslands have dried up. Every plant is parched. 7The people of Moab are leaving, crossing over Willow Creek, taking everything they own and have worked for. 8In the towns of Eglaim and of Beerelim and everywhere else in Moab mournful cries are heard. 9The streams near Dimon are flowing with blood. But the Lord will bring even worse trouble to Dimon,+ because all in Moab who escape will be attacked by lions.+ Footnotes: Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®) © 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved. Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (www.americanbible.org). Learn more at www.cev.bible. Discover .BIBLE resources for your ministry at www.get.bible/cev Bible Hub |