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.