⁴ Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep^(A) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”^(B)

³⁶ “So my heart laments^(A) for Moab like the music of a pipe;
    it laments like a pipe for the people of Kir Hareseth.^(B)
    The wealth they acquired^(C) is gone.
³⁷ Every head is shaved^(D)
    and every beard^(E) cut off;
every hand is slashed
    and every waist is covered with sackcloth.^(F)
38 On all the roofs in Moab
    and in the public squares^(G)
there is nothing but mourning,
    for I have broken Moab
    like a jar^(H) that no one wants,”
declares the Lord.
³⁹ “How shattered^(I) she is! How they wail!
    How Moab turns her back in shame!
Moab has become an object of ridicule,^(J)
    an object of horror to all those around her.”

¹⁹ The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    ‘How ruined^(A) we are!
    How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
    because our houses are in ruins.’”

¹⁰ I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.^(A)
They are desolate and untraveled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds^(B) have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

¹⁹ Oh, my anguish, my anguish!^(A)
    I writhe in pain.^(B)
Oh, the agony of my heart!
    My heart pounds^(C) within me,
    I cannot keep silent.^(D)
For I have heard the sound of the trumpet;^(E)
    I have heard the battle cry.^(F)

³ At this my body is racked with pain,^(A)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;^(B)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered^(C) by what I see.