15:1 A prophecy against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!
15:2 Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.
15:3 In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.
15:4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, and their hearts are faint.
15:5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.
15:6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.
15:7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
15:8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
15:9 The waters of Dimon* are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon* - a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land. / *Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.