“Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed;
Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;
The high stronghold has been put to shame and ^[a]shattered.
² There is no longer praise for Moab;
In Heshbon they have devised disaster against her:
‘Come and let’s cut her off from being a nation!’
You too, ^[b]Madmen, will be silenced;
The sword will follow you.
³ The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’
⁴ Moab is broken,
Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.
⁵ For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith
With continual weeping;
For at the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the ^[c]anguished cry of destruction.
⁶ Flee, save yourselves,
So that you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
⁷ For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures,
You yourself will also be captured;
And Chemosh will go off into exile
Together with his priests and his leaders.
⁸ A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the plateau will be destroyed,
As the Lord has said.
⁹ Give ^[d]wings to Moab,
For she will ^[e]flee away;
And her cities will become a desolation,
Without inhabitants in them.
¹⁰ Cursed is the one who does the Lord’s work negligently,
And cursed is the one who restrains his sword from blood.

¹⁴ How can you say, ‘We are warriors,
And men competent for battle’?
¹⁵ Moab has been destroyed and ^[i]men have gone up to ^[j]his cities;
His choicest ^[k]young men have also gone down to the slaughter,”
Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.
¹⁶ “The disaster of Moab will soon come,
And his catastrophe has hurried quickly.
¹⁷ Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
And all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How the mighty ^[l]scepter has been broken,
A staff of splendor!’
¹⁸ Come down from your glory
And sit on the parched ground,
O daughter living in Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.
¹⁹ Stand by the road and keep watch,
You inhabitant of Aroer;
Ask him who flees and her who escapes
And say, ‘What has happened?’
²⁰ Moab has been put to shame, for it has been ^[m]shattered.
Wail and cry out;
Declare by the Arnon
That Moab has been destroyed.

²⁸ Leave the cities and live among the rocky cliffs,
You inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a dove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm.
²⁹ We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—
Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance, and ^[q]his self-exaltation.
³⁰ I know his fury,” declares the Lord,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.
³¹ Therefore I will wail for Moab,
For all of Moab I will cry out;
^[r]I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
³² More than the weeping for Jazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!
Your tendrils stretched across the sea,
They reached to the sea of Jazer;
Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest
The destroyer has fallen.
³³ So joy and rejoicing are removed
From the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab.
And I have eliminated the wine from the wine presses;
No one will tread them with shouting,
The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

⁴⁰ For this is what the Lord says:
“Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle
And spread out his wings against Moab.
⁴¹ Kerioth has been captured
And the strongholds have been seized,
So the hearts of the warriors of Moab on that day
Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
⁴² Moab will be destroyed from being a people
Because he has ^[w]become arrogant toward the Lord.
⁴³ Terror, pit, and snare are coming upon you,
Inhabitant of Moab,” declares the Lord.
⁴⁴ “The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I will bring upon her, upon Moab,
The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.