¹The burden of Moab: For in the night of being laid waste, Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste, Kir of Moab is destroyed!

¹nekuti usiku Ari reMoabhi rakai twa dongo, rakaparadzwa; nekuti usiku Kiri reMoabhi rakaitwa dongo, rakaparadzwa.

²He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.

²Vakwira Bhayiti, neDhibhoni, kumatunhu akakwirira, kundochemapo; vaMoabhi vanochema pamusoro peNebho napaMedhebha; misoro yavo yose ine mhanza, ndebvu dzose dzakaveurwa.

³In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.

³Panzira dzomumisha yavo vakazvisunga namakudza, pamusoro pedzimba dzavo, napamadare avo, mumwe nomumwe anowungudza achichema zvikuru.

⁴And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh: their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out: his soul trembleth in him.

⁴Heshibhoni rinodanidzira, neEreari; inzwi ravo rinonzwika kusvikira paJahazi; saka varwi vaMoabhi vanodanidzira zvikuru; mweya wavo unodedera mukati mavo.

⁵My heart crieth out for Moab; their fugitives [have fled] unto Zoar, unto Eglath-Sheli-shijah: for by the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

⁵moyo wangu unodanidzira pamusoro paMoabhi; vakuru vavo vanotizira Zoari, neEgiratisherishiya; nekuti vanokwira mukwidzwa waRuhiti vachichema; nekuti panzira inoenda Horonaimi vanochema nokuchema kokuparadzwa.

⁶For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.

⁶nekuti mvura yeNimirimi ichaparadzwa; nekuti uswa hwawoma, bumhudza rapera, hapachina chinomera chitema.

⁷Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, do they carry away to the torrent of the willows.

⁷Saka zvizhinji zvavakawana, nezvavakachengeta, vachayambuka nazvo parukova rwemikonachando.

⁸For the cry goeth round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.

⁸nekuti kuchema kwapotereka kunyika yose yaMoabhi; kuungudza kwake kusvikira paEgiraimi, nokuungudza kwake kusvikira paBheerierimi.

⁹For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, for I will lay yet more upon Dimon: a lion upon them that are escaped of Moab, and upon that which remaineth of the land.

⁹nekuti mvura yeDhimoni izere neropa; nekuti ndichawedzera kurova Dhimoni, ndichatuma shumba iparadze vakapukunyuka vaMoabhi, navakasara panyika.