39. “They will cry, ‘Look how Moab is defeated! Moab turns away in shame!’ Moab has become something ridiculed and something held in contempt by everyone around it.
40. “This is what the Lord says:The enemy will swoop down like eagles and spread their wings over Moab.
41. The cities will be taken, and the fortified places will be captured.On that day Moab’s soldiers will be like women in childbirth.
42. Moab will be destroyed as a nation,because it spoke against the Lord.
43. Disasters, pits, and traps are in store for those who live in Moab,”declares the Lord.
44. “Whoever flees from a disaster will fall into a pit.Whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap.I will bring a year of punishment to Moab,” declares the Lord.
45. “Those who flee will stand exhausted in the shadow of Heshbon.A fire will come out of Heshbon and a flame from Sihon.It will burn the foreheads of the people of Moaband the skulls of those noisy people.
46. How horrible it will be for you, Moab.You people of Chemosh will die.Your sons will be taken away into exile,and your daughters will be taken away into captivity.
47. But I will restore Moab in the last days,” declares the Lord.The judgment against Moab ends here.