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43 Terror and traps and snares lie ahead, O citizens of Moab.

44 Eternal One: If you run from the terror, you will fall into a pit.
        If you climb out of the pit, you will be caught in a trap.
    There is no escape, for I will bring these disasters against Moab;
        the year of their judgment has come at last.

45     Run if you will, but in Heshbon’s shadow the refugees are helpless.
        Look! A fire rages from Heshbon; destroying flames leap from Sihon;
    They consume the northern regions of Moab
        and destroy his clamoring rebels.

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43 Terror(A) and pit and snare(B) await you,
    you people of Moab,”
declares the Lord.
44 “Whoever flees(C) 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(D) of her punishment,”
declares the Lord.

45 “In the shadow of Heshbon
    the fugitives stand helpless,
for a fire has gone out from Heshbon,
    a blaze from the midst of Sihon;(E)
it burns the foreheads of Moab,
    the skulls(F) of the noisy boasters.

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