<p class="poetry">&#8220;Moab will be crushed.p> <p class="poetry">Her children will cry out in distress.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured.p> <p class="poetry">Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Cries of anguish will come from Babylon,p> <p class="poetry">the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.p>

<p class="poetry">Let cries of terror be heard in their housesp> <p class="poetry">when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For they have virtually dug a pit to capture mep> <p class="poetry">and have hidden traps for me to step into.p>

<p class="poetry">May that man be like the cities<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that the <sc>Lordsc> destroyed without showing any mercy.p> <p class="poetry">May he hear a cry of distress in the morningp> <p class="poetry">and a battle cry at noon.p>

<p class="poetry">Cries of anguish raised from Heshbon and Elealehp> <p class="poetry">will be sounded as far as Jahaz.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be sounded from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah.p> <p class="poetry">For even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.p>