1: Moab’s (Lot’s older daughter’s people – Moab – were in south Jordan whilst ben Ammi Ammonites by his younger daughter were in north Jordan, Edom and Moab were twin targets – types of nations under Jesus’ judgement – those who give up inheritance for pleasures and those of shameless nationalistic origin) burden: For in a night (ms), Moab’s Ar ( capital, meaning’city’, south of Arnon river (Wadi Majib flowing below sea level in a deep ( now dammed) gorge to the dead sea making a natural boundary between Reuben and Moab), promised of God to Lot Deut 2:9 but Amorite king Sihon had conquered it Num 21:28 and refused Israel throughfare Num 21:23 and was defeated and his Moabite and Ammonite lands were taken by Israel Num 21:25 before they proceeded to Balak , fs) had been devastated and destroyed (ms). In a night, Moab’s Kir ( Kerak, Kir Haraseth -not Aram’s Kir Amos 1,9 – meaning fortress – is on a spur 900m above sea level looks down into the Arnon gorge, spared by Jehoshafat in horror when its king sacrificed his heir to win 2 Kings 3:2,7, fs) had been devastated and destroyed (ms).
2: He had ascended to the house and the high places in Dhiben (Dhiban is on a high plateau in the Madaba governorate of Jordan, 10 km north of Arnon river, was for Gad taken from Sihon, and then part of the Nabatean kindgom) to sob over Nebo (mountain overlooking the promised land where Moses died, became Reuben’s, also name of a Babylonian god) and over Madaba (water+quietly walk, city on King’s highway, east of Dhiben, also on the plateue and also became Reuben’s). Moab makes a hullabaloo on all, Baldness on its heads / chiefs, every beard shaved (Jer 48:37).
3: In its suburbs, they had girded sackcloth on its rooftops and in its plazas all of them cause wails, going down with sobbing.
4: And Heshbon ( Sihon’s Amorite city, then Reuben’s when Sihon refused Israel peaceful passage, to build after they and Gad had helped the rest settle across the Jordan, fs), she shrieks, and El-aleh (North of Heshbon and even higher on the plateau – hence God ascends – reconquered after Solomon’s time by Mesha, Amorite king, fs) till Yahaz (southern place where Sihon attacked Israel Num 21:23, southeast of Dhiban, on the king’s highway – maybe Kirbet-el- Medeiyineh?, fs). Their voice was heard. (Jer 48:34) Upon which Moab (fs) was armed. His soul is made to sound an alarm. She trembles in him.
5: My heart shrieks for Moab. Her fugitive (/fleeing serpents) till Tsoar’s (southern tip of dead sea, one of the 5 Sodom cities), Lot’s refuge) heifer number 3. For he goes with with sobbing on it in the ascent of the Lukhith (steep road between Horonaim and Tsoar, Jer 48:5). For they wake up with a shriek, a crash (on) Horanaim’s ( cave-cave) road.
6: For Nimrim’s (perennial stream flowing down to the Dead sea, now Wadi el Numeirah supplies the King’s highway, villages from Horonaim to Zoar) waters happen to be a desolation.
For grass was shamed.
For green vegetation was ended.
Nothing was there.
7: And so the abundance he had made and he lifts up appointments-to-hold-to-account on Willow brook (Moabite stream, G’arabim – Pledges Stream).
8: For the shriek from the/time of Moab’s territory was caused to be struck off, her howl till dewdrops (Eglaim) and a well gods’ (Baer Elim) howl.
9: For Dhimon’s (same as Dhibon?) waters were filled with blood.
For I set increases on Dhimon for Moab’s fugitive lion and for Adamah’s (soil into which roots grow) remnant.
Prayer:
Lord guide our nations away from greed and selfish nationalism which judges our hills, plateaus, plazas, roads, our capitals, towns, villages, rivers, brooks, lawns, vegetables, cattle and hence may a remnant be saved from sobs, shrieks of our self destruction. Amen.
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