⁵ I am going to bring terror upon you,
    says the Lord God of hosts,
    from all your neighbors,
and you will be scattered, each headlong,
    with no one to gather the fugitives.^(A)

²⁹ They take their tents and their flocks,
    their curtains and all their goods;
they carry off their camels for themselves,
    and a cry shall go up: “Terror is all around!”^(A)

⁵ Why do I see them terrified?
    They have fallen back;
their warriors are beaten down
    and have fled in haste.
They do not look back—
    terror is all around!
            says the Lord.^(A)

¹² But you should not have gloated over^[a] your brother
    on the day of his misfortune;
you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah
    on the day of their ruin;
you should not have boasted
    on the day of distress.^(A)
13 You should not have entered the gate of my people
    on the day of their calamity;
you should not have joined in the gloating over Judah’s^[b] disaster
    on the day of his calamity;
you should not have stolen his goods
    on the day of his calamity.^(B)
14 You should not have stood at the crossings
    to cut off his fugitives;
you should not have handed over his survivors
    on the day of distress.

³ Through breaches in the wall you shall leave,
    each one straight ahead,
    and you shall be flung out into Harmon,^[a]
            says the Lord.

⁴¹ the towns^[a] shall be taken
    and the strongholds seized.
The hearts of the warriors of Moab, on that day,
    shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.^(A)
42 Moab shall be destroyed as a people,
    because he magnified himself against the Lord.^(B)
43 Terror, pit, and trap
    are before you, O inhabitants of Moab!
            says the Lord.^(C)
44 Everyone who flees from the terror
    shall fall into the pit,
and everyone who climbs out of the pit
    shall be caught in the trap.
For I will bring these things^[b] upon Moab
    in the year of their punishment,
            says the Lord.^(D)

⁸ Their widows became more numerous
    than the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of youths
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon her suddenly.

³ “Give counsel;
    grant justice;
make your shade like night
    at the height of noon;
hide the outcasts;
    do not betray the fugitive;^(A)