In its streets they wear sackcloth;
on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,
falling down and weeping.
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.(A)
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,
and they tremble.
My heart cries out over Moab,
whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,(B)
to Eglath-shelishiyah;
they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;
they raise a cry of destruction
on the road to Horonaim.

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