36. “That is why my heart is moaning like funeral flutes for Moab, and my heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. Thus the wealth he made is lost.
37. For every head is bald, every beard clipped, on all the hands are gashes, and around the waist sackcloth.
38. On all the housetops of Moab and in its squares— lamentation everywhere! For I have broken Moab like a jar In which no one delights” —it is a declaration of Adonai—
39. “‘How shattered it is!’ they wailed! ‘How Moab turned his back in shame!’ So Moab will become a laughingstock and a horror to all around him.”
40. For thus says Adonai: “Behold, he will swoop down like a vulture and spread out his wings against Moab.
41. The towns are captured, the strongholds seized. The hearts of Moab’s warriors in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
42. Moab will be destroyed as a people, because he boasted against Adonai.
43. Panic, pit and trap, are upon you, inhabitant of Moab,” declares Adonai.
44. “The one who flees from panic will fall into the pit, and one who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For I will bring on Moab the year of their visitation.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
45. “In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stop, exhausted, for fire breaks out of Heshbon flame from within Sihon, and it singes the foreheads and the scalps of Moab’s noisy sons.
46. Oy to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished! For your sons are taken away captive and your daughters into exile.
47. Yet I will restore Moab from exile in the end of days.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “Until then this is the judgment of Moab.”