36 “So my heart mourns for Moab and for the people of Kir Heres, like someone playing a funeral song on a flute, because everything they owned is gone.
37 All of them have shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.
38 On all the housetops of Moab and in all its public squares there is nothing but mourning, because I have broken Moab like a jar that no one wants.
39 Moab has been shattered! Cry out! Moab has been disgraced. It is in ruins, and all the surrounding nations make fun of it. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
40 The Lord has promised that a nation will swoop down on Moab like an eagle with its outspread wings,
41 and the towns and fortresses will be captured. On that day Moab's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor.
42 Moab will be destroyed and will no longer be a nation, because it rebelled against me.