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    Utterance 4

    The Burden against Moab

    (Jeremiah 48:1–47)

    ⓘ This message of judgment and lament concerned Moab’s...

    This message of judgment and lament concerned Moab’s fall. The extensive references to Moabite place names indicate that Isaiah was thoroughly familiar with Moab.

    1This is the burden against Moab:

    Ar in Moab is ruined,destroyed in a night!Kir in Moab is devastated,destroyed in a night!2Dibon goes up to its templeto weep at its high places.Moab wails over Nebo,as well as over Medeba.
    Every head is shaved,every beard is cut off.3In its streets they wear sackcloth;on the rooftops and in the public squaresthey all wail, falling down weeping.4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;their voices are heard as far as Jahaz.Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out;their souls tremble within.
    5My heart cries out over Moab;her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,as far as Eglath-shelishiyah.†With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith;they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.6The waters of Nimrim are dried up,and the grass is withered;the vegetation is gone,and the greenery is no more.
    ⓘ The precise locations of the Ravine of Willows...

    The precise locations of the Ravine of Willows and of Eglaim and Beer-elim are uncertain.
    7So they carry their wealth and belongingsover the Brook of the Willows.†
    8For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab.Their wailing reaches Eglaim;it is heard in Beer-elim.9The waters of Dimon† are full of blood,but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moaband upon the remnant of the land.