4 Moab is shattered—her little ones have raised a cry to be heard.
5 For at the ascent of Luhith they go up with continual weeping. For on the descent to Horonaim they heard the foe’s shattering cry.
6 Flee! Escape with your lives! Be like a tamarisk in the wilderness.
7 For because of your trust in your works and your treasures, you will be captured, too. Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and princes.
8 The destroyer will come to every town. No town will escape. The valley will perish and the plain will be destroyed, as Adonai has said.
9 Give wings to Moab, for she must fly and get away. Her cities will become a wasteland, with no one living in them.
10 Cursed is the one who does the work of Adonai with slackness, and cursed is the one who withholds his sword from blood.