⁸ For a cry has gone
    around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
    her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

^31 (A)Therefore I wail for Moab;
    I cry out for all Moab;
    for the men of ^(B)Kir-hareseth I mourn.
³² More than for ^(C)Jazer I weep for you,
    ^(D)O vine of ^(E)Sibmah!
^(F)Your branches passed over the sea,
    reached to the Sea of ^(G)Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
    the destroyer has fallen.
^33 (H)Gladness and joy have been taken away
    from the fruitful land of Moab;
I have made the wine cease from the winepresses;
    no one treads them with shouts of joy;
    the shouting is not the shout of joy.

²⁰ Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
    ^(A)wail and cry!
Tell it beside ^(B)the Arnon,
    that ^(C)Moab is laid waste.

² He has gone up to the temple,^[a] and to ^(A)Dibon,
    to the high places^[b] to weep;
over ^(B)Nebo and over ^(C)Medeba
    Moab ^(D)wails.
On every head is ^(E)baldness;
    every beard is shorn;
³ in the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.
^4 (F)Heshbon and ^(G)Elealeh cry out;
    their voice is heard as far as ^(H)Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
    his soul trembles.
⁵ My heart cries out for Moab;
    her fugitives flee to Zoar,
    to ^(I)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ^(J)ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;
on the road to ^(K)Horonaim
    they raise a cry of destruction;