48 Yisrael’s (Israel’s) god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says to Moav (Moab):

Nevo won’t end well because it’ll be devastated.

Kiryatayim has been humiliated and captured.

Its fortress has been disgraced and shattered.[ref]

2 No one will praise Moav again.

Their enemies in Heshbon plotted disaster against them, saying,

Let’s go and destroy it as a nation.

Madmen will be silenced after the sword finishes with you.

3 Listen, a cry of distress is coming from Horonayim,

where there’s ruin and terrible destruction.

4 Moav has been destroyed.

Its workers have made their cries heard.

5 They weeps as they climb Luhit hill,

because on the way down to Horonayim,

shouts of distress will heard because of the destruction.

6 Flee, save your lives

so you’ll be like a juniper bush in the wilderness.

7 Because of your trust in your practices and your wealth,

you too will be captured.

Then Kemosh will go away into captivity, along with its priests and leaders.

8 The destroyer will come to every city—no city will escape.

The valley will perish and the plain will be devastated, as Yahweh has said.

9 Give wings to Moav (Moab), because it must certainly fly away.

Its cities will become a wasteland without anyone living in them.

10 Anyone who’s slack doing Yahweh’s work should be cursed.

Anyone who’s afraid to use his sword to kill should be cursed.