“Woe to Nebo,^(C) for it will be ruined.
    Kiriathaim^(D) will be disgraced and captured;
    the stronghold^[a] will be disgraced and shattered.
² Moab will be praised^(E) no more;
    in Heshbon^[b](F) people will plot her downfall:
    ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’^(G)
You, the people of Madmen,^[c] will also be silenced;
    the sword will pursue you.
³ Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim,^(H)
    cries of great havoc and destruction.
⁴ Moab will be broken;
    her little ones will cry out.^[d]
5 They go up the hill to Luhith,^(I)
    weeping bitterly as they go;
on the road down to Horonaim^(J)
    anguished cries over the destruction are heard.
⁶ Flee!^(K) Run for your lives;
    become like a bush^[e] in the desert.^(L)

⁸ The destroyer^(A) will come against every town,
    and not a town will escape.
The valley will be ruined
    and the plateau^(B) destroyed,
    because the Lord has spoken.