35. I will make an end of Moab," declares the Lord, "the one who offers sacrifice on the high place and the one who burns incense to his gods.
36. "Therefore My heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced.
37. For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.
38. On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel," declares the Lord.
39. "How shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back-he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him."
40. For thus says the Lord: "Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle And spread out his wings against Moab.
41. "Kerioth has been captured And the strongholds have been seized, So the hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
42. "Moab will be destroyed from being a people Because he has become arrogant toward the Lord.
43. "Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you, O inhabitant of Moab," declares the Lord.
44. "The one who flees from the terror Will fall into the pit, And the one who climbs up out of the pit Will be caught in the snare; For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab, The year of their punishment," declares the Lord.
45. "In the shadow of Heshbon The fugitives stand without strength; For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon And a flame from the midst of Sihon, And it has devoured the forehead of Moab And the scalps of the riotous revelers.