39. “‘How shattered it is!’ they wailed! ‘How Moab turned his back in shame!’ So Moab will become a laughingstock and a horror to all around him.”
40. For thus says Adonai: “Behold, he will swoop down like a vulture and spread out his wings against Moab.
41. The towns are captured, the strongholds seized. The hearts of Moab’s warriors in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
42. Moab will be destroyed as a people, because he boasted against Adonai.
43. Panic, pit and trap, are upon you, inhabitant of Moab,” declares Adonai.