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in the streets they bind on sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.(A)
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
    their voices are heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the loins of Moab quiver;[a]
    his soul trembles.
My heart cries out for Moab;
    his fugitives flee to Zoar,
    to Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;
on the road to Horonaim
    they raise a cry of destruction;(B)

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  1. 15.4 Or the armed men of Moab cry aloud