in the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.
(A)Heshbon and (B)Elealeh cry out;
    their voice is heard as far as (C)Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
    his soul trembles.
My heart cries out for Moab;
    her fugitives flee to Zoar,
    to (D)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the (E)ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;
on the road to (F)Horonaim
    they raise a cry of destruction;

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