| New Living Translation | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1This message came to me concerning Moab: In one night the town of Ar will be leveled, and the city of Kir will be destroyed. | 1The oracle concerning Moab. Surely in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined; Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined. |
| 2Your people will go to their temple in Dibon to mourn. They will go to their sacred shrines to weep. They will wail for the fate of Nebo and Medeba, shaving their heads in sorrow and cutting off their beards. | 2They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off. |
| 3They will wear burlap as they wander the streets. From every home and public square will come the sound of wailing. | 3In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops and in their squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears. |
| 4The people of Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out; their voices will be heard as far away as Jahaz! The bravest warriors of Moab will cry out in utter terror. They will be helpless with fear. | 4Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out, Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz; Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; His soul trembles within him. |
| 5My heart weeps for Moab. Its people flee to Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. Weeping, they climb the road to Luhith. Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to Horonaim. | 5My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah, For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin. |
| 6Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains. | 6For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out, There is no green thing. |
| 7The people grab their possessions and carry them across the Ravine of Willows. | 7Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up They carry off over the brook of Arabim. |
| 8A cry of distress echoes through the land of Moab from one end to the other— from Eglaim to Beer-elim. | 8For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab, Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim. |
| 9The stream near Dibon runs red with blood, but I am still not finished with Dibon! Lions will hunt down the survivors— both those who try to escape and those who remain behind. | 9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon, A lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land. |
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