Luhith

Luhith is a Moabite town remembered only in oracles of judgment. It stands at an ascent that fugitives climb in flight, paired in the same breath with the descent of Horonaim. The two prophets who name it use almost the same picture: a road of weeping going up, a road of destruction going down.

The Ascent of Weeping

Isaiah's oracle on Moab fixes Luhith on the route of refugees: "My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction" (Isa 15:5). Jeremiah's later oracle reuses the geography for the same disaster: "For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping they will go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction" (Jer 48:5). The town is never described apart from this passage of grief — its name belongs to the road taken when Moab is overrun.