This is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon! Rebuild it! Restore Sihon’s city!
The gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites were assigned their duties after the wall had been rebuilt and I had hung the doors.
Then you will mock the king of Babylon with this saying, “How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end!”
Won’t all of them ridicule him, directing clever sayings and riddles at him, like: “ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?’
This is how it’s described in the Book of the Wars of the Lord: “… Waheb in Suphah and the valleys,
Heshbon was the city of King Sihon of the Amorites. He had fought the former king of Moab and had taken all his land up to the Arnon Valley.
Fire came out of Heshbon, flames from Sihon’s city. They destroyed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s worship sites.