4. Moab has been crushed. Announce an outcry for her little ones.
5. For, along the ascent of Luhith, the mourner will ascend with weeping. For, on the descent of Horonaim, the enemies have heard the wailing of devastation.
6. Flee, save your lives! And you shall be like a saltcedar tree in the desert.
7. For because you have had faith in your fortifications and in your storehouses, you too will be seized. And Chemosh will go into captivity: his priests and his leaders together.
8. And the despoiler will overwhelm every city, and not a single city will be saved. And the valleys will perish, and the fields will be destroyed. For the Lord has spoken.
9. Give a blossom to Moab. For it will depart when it is blossoming. And its cities will become desolate and uninhabited.
10. Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord deceitfully. And cursed is he who prohibits his sword from blood.
11. Moab has been fertile from his youth, and he has rested amid his brood. And he has not been transferred from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into the transmigration. Therefore, his taste has remained with him, and his scent has not changed.