Moab Will Be Punished
1 This is a message about Moab:
The towns of Ar and Kir
were destroyed in a night.
Moab is left in ruins!
2 Everyone in Dibon has gone up
to the temple and the shrines
to cry and weep.
All of Moab is crying.
Heads and beards are shaved
because of what happened
at Nebo and Medeba.
3 In the towns and at home,
everyone wears sackcloth
and cries loud and long.
4 From Heshbon and Elealeh,
weeping is heard in Jahaz;
Moab's warriors scream
while trembling with fear.
Pity Moab
5 I pity Moab!
Its people are running to Zoar
and to Eglath-Shelishiyah.
They cry on their way up
to the town of Luhith;
on the road to Horonaim
they tell of disasters.
6 The streams of Nimrim
and the grasslands
have dried up.
Every plant is parched.
7 The people of Moab are leaving,
crossing over Willow Creek,
taking everything they own
and have worked for.
8 In the towns of Eglaim
and of Beerelim
and everywhere else in Moab
mournful cries are heard.
9 The streams near Dimon
are flowing with blood.
But the Lord will bring
even worse trouble to Dimon,
because all in Moab who escape
will be attacked by lions.
Moabu inowokolomodziwa
1 Dama ngekwe Moabu.
Ngoti nzi nkulu Ari wakolomogwa busiku gung'ompela,
Moabu yapalala,
ngoti nzi nkulu Ari wakolomogwa busiku gung'ompela
Moabu yapalala.
2 Diboni watathila ku magalo awe ekunamata kunolila,
Moabu inolilila mizi mikulu Nebo ne Medeba.
Nsholo mmwe ne mmwe watesegwa
ne ndendu dzakeriwa.
3 Mu zila bakazwipomba nge masaka,
pezhugwi kwe ng'umba ne mu mashanganilo,
mmwe ne mmwe unolila etebula mishodzi.
4 Bathu be Heshibhoni ne Eleale banolila,
mahwi abo akahwika kule kunoti ku Jahazi,
ndizo babhayani be Moabu banolilila pezhugwi,
moyo yabo inotetema.
5 Moyo wangu unolilila Moabu,
batizhi bayo banotizhila ku Zowa
ne ku Egila Shelishiya.
Ngoti panotathuka Luhiti
banoyenda belila,
mu zila ye Horonayimi
banolila tjililo tje golomodzo.
6 Vula dze Nimirimu dzapkhwa,
bushwa gwabuna,
zwinomela butshwa zotimbama,
akutjina mazhani matshwa.
7 Ndizo thundu yabakashaba
ne zwabakabe bakubunganya
bakazwitutila seli kwe Gorokoro le Mipopula.
8 Ngoti tjililo tjayenda
nge shango yose ye Moabu;
guwo loswika ku Egilaimu,
ne ku Bheerelimu.
9 Ngoti vula dze Dimoni dzizhele malopa,
koga nditjawozhisa mu Dimoni zwinyanya,
ndowozhisila shumba ibabo bakapudzumuka be Moabu
ne malimbelimbe mu shango.