2. Moab will not be praised anymore. In Heshbon people will plan its fall from power. They will say, 'Come. Let's put an end to that nation.' City of Madmen, you too will be silent because you are sad. My sword will hunt you down.
3. Listen to the cries from Horonaim. The town is being completely destroyed.
4. Moab will be broken. Her little ones will cry out.
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.
12. But other days are coming," announces the Lord. "At that time I will send people who pour wine from jars. They will pour Moab out like wine. They will empty its jars. They will smash its jugs.