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Daughter Dibon has gone up
    to the high places to weep;
Over Nebo and over Medeba
    Moab is wailing.
Every head is shaved,
    every beard sheared off.[a](A)
In the streets they wear sackcloth,
    and on the rooftops;
In the squares
    everyone wails, streaming with tears.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 15:2 Shaved…sheared off: traditional signs of grief.

Dibon(A) goes up to its temple,
    to its high places(B) to weep;
    Moab wails(C) over Nebo(D) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved(E)
    and every beard cut off.(F)
In the streets they wear sackcloth;(G)
    on the roofs(H) and in the public squares(I)
they all wail,(J)
    prostrate with weeping.(K)

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So put on sackcloth,
    mourn and wail:
“The blazing anger of the Lord
    has not turned away from us.”(A)

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So put on sackcloth,(A)
    lament(B) and wail,
for the fierce anger(C) of the Lord
    has not turned away from us.

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Listen! an outcry from Horonaim,(A)
    “Ruin and great destruction!”

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Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim,(A)
    cries of great havoc and destruction.

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