“Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress.

The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.”

Cries of anguish will come from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.

Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

May that man be like the cities that the Lord destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.

Cries of anguish raised from Heshbon and Elealeh will be sounded as far as Jahaz. They will be sounded from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah. For even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.