1: The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is
laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is
laid waste, and brought to silence; |
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2: He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to
weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads
shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. |
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3:
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on
the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl,
weeping abundantly. |
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4: And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard
even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his
life shall be grievous unto him. |
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5: My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto
Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith
with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall
raise up a cry of destruction. |
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6: For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. |
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7: Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. |
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8: For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
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9: For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will
bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon
the remnant of the land. |