32AND WHAT? WILL ANYONE ANSWER [THE] MESSENGERS OF A NATION THAT YAHWEH HE HAS FOUNDED ZION AND IN IT THEY WILL TAKE REFUGE [THE] AFFLICTED [PEOPLE] OF PEOPLE HIS 32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
1[THE] ORACLE OF MOAB THAT IN A NIGHT <OF> [WHICH] IT WAS DEVASTATED AR OF MOAB IT WAS DESTROYED THAT IN A NIGHT <OF> [WHICH] IT WAS DEVASTATED KIR OF MOAB IT WAS DESTROYED The Burden against Moab (Jeremiah 48:1–47) 1This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
2IT HAS GONE UP THE HOUSE AND DIBON THE HIGH PLACES FOR WEEPING ON NEBO AND ON MEDEBA MOAB IT IS WAILING [IS] ON ALL HEADS ITS BALDNESS EVERY BEARD [IS] DIMINISHED 2Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
3IN STREETS ITS THEY HAVE GIRDED ON SACKCLOTH ON ROOFS ITS AND IN OPEN PLACES ITS ALL OF IT IT IS WAILING GOING DOWN IN <THE> WEEPING 3In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
4AND IT HAS CRIED OUT HESHBON AND ELEALEH TO JAHAZ IT HAS BEEN HEARD VOICE THEIR THERE- -FORE [THE] ARMED [MEN] OF MOAB THEY ARE SHOUTING BEING ITS IT IS TREMBLING TO IT 4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
5HEART MY FOR MOAB IT CRIES OUT FUGITIVES ITS [ARE] TO ZOAR EGLATH SHELISHIYAH FOR [THE] ASCENT OF <THE> LUHITH WITH WEEPING IT IS GOING UP ON IT THAT [THE] ROAD OF HORONAIM A CRY OF SHATTERING THEY ROUSE 5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah.*NoteCloseOr Zoar, like a heifer three years of age. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
6THAT [THE] WATERS OF NIMRIM WASTES THEY ARE FOR IT HAS DRIED UP GRASS IT HAS WASTED AWAY VEGETATION GREENERY NOT IT IS 6The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
7THERE- -FORE [THE] WEALTH [WHICH] IT HAS MADE AND STORE THEIR OVER [THE] WADI OF THE POPLARS THEY CARRY OFF THEM 7So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.*NoteCloseOr Poplars
8FOR IT HAS GONE AROUND THE CRY <OBJ.> [THE] TERRITORY OF MOAB TO EGLAIM WAILING ITS AND BEER ELIM WAILING ITS 8For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
9THAT [THE] WATERS OF DIMON THEY ARE FULL BLOOD THAT I WILL PUT ON DIMON ADDED [THINGS] [WILL BE] FOR [THE] ESCAPED REMNANT OF MOAB A LION AND FOR [THE] REMAINDER OF [THE] LAND 9The waters of Dimon*NoteCloseMT, twice in this verse; DSS and Vulgate Dibon; Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood. are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.