2. People will not praise Moab any more.The enemy will capture Heshbon and plot how to destroy Moab,saying, ‘Come, let’s put an end to that nation!’City of Madmen, you will also be destroyed.A destructive army will march against you.
3. Cries of anguish will arise in Horonaim,‘Oh, the ruin and great destruction!’
4. “Moab will be crushed.Her children will cry out in distress.
5. Indeed they will climb the slopes of Luhith,weeping continually as they go.For on the road down to Horonaim they will hear the cries of distress over the destruction.
6. They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves!Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’
7. “Moab, you trust in the things you do and in your riches.So you too will be conquered.Your god Chemosh will go into exilealong with his priests and his officials.
8. The destroyer will come against every town.Not one town will escape.The towns in the valley will be destroyed.The cities on the high plain will be laid waste.I, the Lord, have spoken!
9. Set up a gravestone for Moab,for it will certainly be laid in ruins!Its cities will be laid wasteand become uninhabited.”
10. A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work!A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!
11. “From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed.It has never been taken into exile.Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs,never poured out from one jar to another.They are like wine which tastes like it always did,whose aroma has remained unchanged.
12. But the time is coming when I will sendmen against Moab who will empty it out.They will empty the towns of their people,then will lay those towns in ruins.I, the Lord, affirm it!