So the paths they take will be dark and slippery. Certainly, they will stumble in the dark and fall headlong.” Yahweh declares, “I will bring disaster on them when the time for punishment comes.
They will crush you to pieces, and your children too! And they will leave your city totally destroyed. Since you would not recognize God’s day of visitation, you will see your day of devastation!”
Slaughter all her warriors; lead them away as cattle to be slaughtered. Woe to them, for their day of reckoning has come, their time for being punished is here.
The one who flees from the terror will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare.” For Yahweh declares, “I will bring upon Moab the year of her punishment.
The mercenaries she had with her were like pampered, fattened calves, but they, too, turned and ran away; they failed to stand and fight. For the day has come when Yahweh will bring disaster and punishment to them.
Behold, instead of watching over you for good, I will watch for chances to harm you. Some of you will die in war, and others will die by famine until you are wiped out.
I was like a trusting lamb led to the slaughter. I had no idea they were speaking about me when they said, “Let’s destroy the tree while it’s in full bloom. We’ll kill him so that no one will remember him anymore.”
They have acted shamefully, and have committed abhorrent acts, yet they feel no shame. They don’t know how to blush. Surely, they will fall among the fallen, and stumble when I deal with them,” says Yahweh.
Yahweh, the Commander of Angel Armies, says: “As one gleans the grapes that remain in a vineyard, those who remain of Israel will be gleaned. As the hand of the grape gatherer goes through the vines one last time, the Babylonians will glean what the Assyrians leave behind.”