The first part of the burden of Moav (our chapter) is a lamentation primarily composed of a list of Moavite cities that will suffer destruction, along with descriptions of pain and devastation. The lamentation can be divided into three sections based on the accompanying descriptions tied to the locations mentioned:

The first section focuses on the growing weeping and mourning between various cities: "The people of the House of Divon climb to their high shrines in tears for Nevo and over Meideva, Moav is wailing... Cheshbon cries out, as do Elaleh, and their voices reach Yachatz" (15:2-4). This part concludes with the phrase “this is why”:
"This is why Moav’s warriors roar; their souls are screaming for them" (15:5).

The second section depicts Moav’s devastation through the drying up of its water sources: "The waters of Nimrim will become a desolation; for grass will wither and plants will die: all green gone" (15:6). This section also ends with the same phrase as well: "And so (in Hebrew they're both "על כן"), the wealth they have accumulated, all that they have saved, they carry away across the stream of Willows" (15:7).

The third section describes the crying over deaths caused by the sword. Unlike the previous sections, this one does not conclude with “this is why,” as the enormity of the grief leaves the Moavites unable to respond: "Her cries rise all around the border of Moav, her wails as far as Agalim, her wails as far as Be'er Eilim. The waters of Dimon are filled with blood; I will spill out yet more upon Dimon, set a lion Moav's fugitives; those left will be swallowed by the ground." (15:8-9).

In the attached article by Professor Yehuda Elitzur, a comparison is made between the Mesha Stele and the content of this chapter. The cities afflicted in this prophecy correspond significantly with the cities mentioned in the inscription. Elitzur explains that this prophecy was delivered against the backdrop of the great pride of Mesha, the king of Moav, and the blasphemy against God expressed in the Mesha Stele.