2. the renown of Moab is no more.In Heshbon they planned disaster against her:‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence;the sword shall pursue you.
3. “A voice! A cry from Horonaim,‘Desolation and great destruction!’
4. Moab is destroyed;her little ones have made a cry.
5. For at the ascent of Luhiththey go up weeping;for at the descent of Horonaimthey have heard the distressed cry of destruction.
6. Flee! Save yourselves!You will be like a juniper in the desert!
7. For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures,you also shall be taken;and Chemosh shall go into exilewith his priests and his officials.
8. The destroyer shall come upon every city,and no city shall escape;the valley shall perish,and the plain shall be destroyed,as the Lord has spoken.
9. “Give wings to Moab,for she would fly away;her cities shall become a desolation,with no inhabitant in them.
10. “Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.