5. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up with continual weeping. For on the descent to Horonaim they heard the foe’s shattering cry.
6. Flee! Escape with your lives! Be like a tamarisk in the wilderness.
7. For because of your trust in your works and your treasures, you will be captured, too. Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and princes.
8. The destroyer will come to every town. No town will escape. The valley will perish and the plain will be destroyed, as Adonai has said.
9. Give wings to Moab, for she must fly and get away. Her cities will become a wasteland, with no one living in them.