39. “How shattered she is! How they wail! How Moab turns her back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule, an object of horror to all those around her.”
40. This is what the Lord says: “Look! An eagle is swooping down, spreading its wings over Moab.
41. Kerioth will be captured and the strongholds taken. In that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
42. Moab will be destroyed as a nation because she defied the Lord.
43. Terror and pit and snare await you, you people of Moab,” declares the Lord.
44. “Whoever flees from the terror will fall into a pit, whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare; for I will bring on Moab the year of her punishment,” declares the Lord.
45. “In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stand helpless, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, a blaze from the midst of Sihon; it burns the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of the noisy boasters.
46. Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed; your sons are taken into exile and your daughters into captivity.
47. “Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in days to come,” declares the Lord. Here ends the judgment on Moab.