38. There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets: for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which is no pleasure,
39. They shall wail, saying, How it is broken down! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismay to all them about him.
40. For thus says the LORD;
41. Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
42. And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
43. Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab,