1This message is regarding Moab. In one night, the town of Ar in Moab is leveled, and brought to silence! In one night Kir of Moab is ruined, and brought to silence; 2He (Moab) has gone up to Bajith, its sacred high place shrine, to mourn; Moab shall wail over Nebo, and over Medeba; with all their heads shaven, and every beard cut off. 3In their streets they shall wear sackcloth (burlap); everyone shall wail on the tops of their houses and in their public squares, weeping profusely. 4Heshbon and Elealeh shall cry out; their voice shall be heard even in Jahaz; therefore, the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; rendered helpless by fear. 5My (Isaiah's) heart shall cry out for Moab; its fugitives shall flee as far as Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah; with weeping shall they ascend the road to Luhith; on the road to Horonaim, lamenting the destruction. 6The waters of Nimrim shall be dried up; the grass is scorched, the vegetation gone, there is no green thing. 7Therefore, the wealth they have acquired and that they have stored, shall be carried away to the brook of the willows. 8For the cry echoes throughout the borders of Moab; the wailing reaches to Eglaim, and its howling to Beer-elim. 9The waters of Dimon shall be full of blood; for I will bring still more woes upon Dimon, lions will hunt down the fugitives of Moab, those that remain in the land.