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THE BURDEN OF MOAB
The burden of Moab: Because in a night Ar of Moab is ravaged and rendered mute; because in a night Qir of Moab is ravaged and rendered mute:
2 he ascends to Bayith and to Dibon - to the bamahs, weeping: Moab howls over Nebo and over Medeba - baldness on all their heads - every beard cut off.
3 In their outways they gird with sackcloth: on their roofs and in their broadways every one howls - descending into weeping abundantly.
4 And Heshbon cries, and El Aleh: their voice is heard to Yahsah: so the equipped of Moab shout; his soul trembles.
5 My heart is toward Moab; his fugitives cry out to Soar, an heifer of three: for by the ascent of Luchith they ascend with weeping; for in the way of Horonayim they waken a cry of breaking.
6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolations: for the hay withers away, the sprout finishes off; there is no green.
7 So the abundance they worked and what they mustered they bear away to the wadi of the willows.
8 For the cry goes around the borders of Moab - the howling to Eglayim and the howling to Beerelim:
9 for the waters of Dimon fill with blood: for I place additions upon Dimon - lions upon the escapees of Moab and upon the survivors of the soil.