1. Concerning Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled; Kirjathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and dismayed.
2. Moab's praise is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be cut down; the sword shall pursue thee.
3. A voice of crying from Horonaim; wasting and great destruction!
4. Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
5. For by the ascent of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the descent of Horonaim is heard the anguish of the cry of destruction.
6. Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrub in the wilderness.
7. For because thou hast confided in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken, and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
8. And the waster shall come upon every city, that not a city shall escape; and the valley shall perish, and the plateau shall be destroyed: as Jehovah hath said.
9. Give wings unto Moab, that she may flee and get away; and the cities thereof shall become a desolation, without inhabitant.
10. Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood!