⁴¹ He will also invade the Beautiful Land.^(A) Many countries will fall, but Edom,^(B) Moab^(C) and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from his hand.

Here ends the judgment on Moab.

⁴⁵ He will pitch his royal tents between the seas at^[a] the beautiful holy mountain.^(A) Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.

¹⁶ The invader will do as he pleases;^(A) no one will be able to stand against him.^(B) He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land and will have the power to destroy it.^(C)

⁹ Out of one of them came another horn, which started small^(A) but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land.^(B)

⁸ After many days^(A) you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations^(B) to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.^{(C) 9} You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm;^(D) you will be like a cloud^(E) covering the land.^(F)

¹⁰ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind^(G) and you will devise an evil scheme.^{(H) 11} You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people^(I)—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars.^{(J) 12} I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.^[a]” ¹³ Sheba^(K) and Dedan^(L) and the merchants of Tarshish^(M) and all her villages^[b] will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?^(N)”’

²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.^[a](A) For all these nations are really uncircumcised,^(B) and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(C)”