38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord.
39 How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”
40 For thus says the Lord:“Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;
41 the cities shall be takenand the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that daylike the heart of a woman in her birth pains;
42 Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people,because he magnified himself against the Lord.
43 Terror, pit, and snareare before you, O inhabitant of Moab!declares the Lord.
44 He who flees from the terrorshall fall into the pit,and he who climbs out of the pitshall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab,the year of their punishment,declares the Lord.