5 The people go up the road to Luhith. They are sobbing bitterly as they go. Loud cries are heard on the road down to Horonaim. People cry out because the town is being destroyed.
6 People of Moab run away! Run for your lives! Become like a lonely bush in the desert.
7 You trust in the things you can do. You trust in your riches. So you too will be taken away as prisoners. Your god Chemosh will be carried away. So will its priests and officials.
8 The one who is going to destroy you will come against every town. Not even one of them will escape. The valley and the high flatlands will be destroyed. I, the Lord, have spoken.
9 Sprinkle salt all over Moab. It will be completely destroyed. Its towns will be a dry and empty desert. No one will live in them.
10 "May a person who is lazy when he does my work be under my curse! May anyone who keeps his sword from killing be under my curse!
11 "Moab has been at peace and rest from its earliest days. It is like wine that has not been shaken up. It has not been poured from one jar to another. Moab 's people have not been taken away from their land. They are like wine that tastes as it always did. Its smell has not changed at all.