36. Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes,and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres.Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.
37. For every head is bald,and every beard clipped.There are cuttings on all the hands,and sackcloth on the waist.
38. On all the housetops of Moab,and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere;for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says the Lord.
39. “How it is broken down!How they wail!How Moab has turned the back with shame!So will Moab become a derisionand a terror to all who are around him.”
40. For the Lord says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle,and will spread out his wings against Moab.
41. Kerioth is taken,and the strongholds are seized.The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that daywill be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42. Moab will be destroyed from being a people,because he has magnified himself against the Lord.
43. Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you,inhabitant of Moab,” says the Lord.
44. “He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare:for I will bring on him, even on Moab,the year of their visitation,” says the Lord.
45. “Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,and a flame from the middle of Sihon,and has devoured the corner of Moab,and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
46. Woe to you, O Moab!The people of Chemosh are undone;for your sons are taken away captive,and your daughters into captivity.
47. “Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,”says the Lord.Thus far is the judgment of Moab.