38 There will be lamentation everywhereupon all the housetops of Moaband in the streets,for I have broken Moablike a vessel in which is no pleasure,says the Lord.
39 How it is broken down! How they have wailed!How Moab has turned his back with shame!So Moab will be a derisionand a terror to all around him.
40 For thus says the Lord: Look, one will fly as an eagleand spread his wings against Moab.
41 Kerioth has been captured,and the strongholds have been seized,and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab in that daywill be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42 Moab will be destroyed from being a peoplebecause he has magnified himself against the Lord.
43 Fear and the pit and the snare will be upon you,O inhabitant of Moab,says the Lord.
44 He who flees from the terrorshall fall into the pit,and he who gets up out of the pitwill be taken in the snare;for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab,the year of their punishment,says the Lord.