4. Moab will be broken up.Her little children will cry for help.
5. Moab’s people go up the path to Luhith.They cry loudly as they go.On the road down to the town of Horonaim,cries of pain and suffering can be heard.
6. Run! Run for your lives!Go like a bush being blown through the desert.
7. You trust in the things you do and in your wealth.So you also will be captured.The god Chemosh will be taken into captivity.And his priests and officers will be taken with him.
8. The destroyer will come against every town.Not one town will escape.The valley will be ruined.The high plain will be destroyed.The Lord said this would happen.
9. Spread salt over the fields in Moab.The country will be an empty desert.Moab’s towns will become empty.No one will live in them.
10. A curse will be on anyone who doesn’t do what the Lord says.A curse will be on anyone who keeps back his sword from killing.
11. “The people of Moab have never known trouble.They are like wine left to settle.They have never been poured like wine from one jar to another.They have not been taken into captivity.So they taste as they did before.And their smell has not changed.
12. A time is coming,” says the Lord.“And I will soon send men to pour you from your jars.Those men will empty Moab’s jars.And they will smash their jugs.
13. The people of Israel trusted that god in Bethel.They were ashamed when there was no help.In the same way Moab will be ashamed of their god Chemosh.