⁵ My heart cries out for Moab;
    her fugitives flee to Zoar,
    to ^(A)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ^(B)ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;
on the road to ^(C)Horonaim
    they raise a cry of destruction;

^5 (A)For at the ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;^[a]
for ^(B)at the descent of Horonaim
    they have heard the distressed cry^[b] of destruction.

^20 (A)Crash follows hard on crash;
    the whole land is laid waste.
^(B)Suddenly my tents are laid waste,
    my curtains in a moment.

^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.

¹⁶ I have not run away from being your shepherd,
    nor have I desired the day of sickness.
^(A)You know ^(B)what came out of my lips;
    it was before your face.

¹⁷ But if you will not listen,
    ^(A)my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
    because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.

¹⁸ let them make haste ^(A)and raise a wailing over us,
    ^(B)that our eyes may run down with tears
    and our eyelids flow with water.
¹⁹ For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    ^(C)‘How we are ruined!
    We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
    because they have cast down our dwellings.’”