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40 Moab, an enemy swoops down
like an eagle spreading its wings
    over your land.
41 Your cities[a] and fortresses
    will be captured,
and your warriors as fearful
    as women giving birth.[b]
42 You are finished as a nation,
because you dared oppose me,
    the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 48.41 Your cities: Or “Kerioth.”
  2. 48.41 as fearful … birth: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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