40 This is what the Lord says:

‘Look! An eagle is swooping down,
    spreading its wings over Moab.
41 Kerioth[a] will be captured
    and the strongholds taken.
In that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors
    will be like the heart of a woman in labour.
42 Moab will be destroyed as a nation
    because she defied the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:41 Or The cities