¹² “Therefore their path will become slippery;^(A)
    they will be banished to darkness
    and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
    in the year they are punished,^(B)”
declares the Lord.

⁷ The days of punishment^(A) are coming,
    the days of reckoning^(B) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins^(C) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,^(D)
    the inspired person a maniac.^(E)

²⁷ Kill all her young bulls;^(A)
    let them go down to the slaughter!^(B)
Woe to them! For their day^(C) has come,
    the time^(D) for them to be punished.

⁴⁴ “Whoever flees^(A) from the terror
    will fall into a pit,
whoever climbs out of the pit
    will be caught in a snare;
for I will bring on Moab
    the year^(B) of her punishment,”
declares the Lord.

²¹ The mercenaries^(A) in her ranks
    are like fattened calves.^(B)
They too will turn and flee^(C) together,
    they will not stand their ground,
for the day^(D) of disaster is coming upon them,
    the time^(E) for them to be punished.