"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.

"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.

then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.

then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.

Terror, pits, and traps are waiting for the people of Moab. The LORD has spoken.

Helpless refugees try to find protection in Heshbon, the city that King Sihon once ruled, but it is in flames. Fire has burned up the frontiers and the mountain heights of the war-loving people of Moab.

I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.

When they first settled there, they did not worship the LORD, and so he sent lions, which killed some of them.

I, the LORD, have decided that four terrible things will happen to them: they will be killed in war; their bodies will be dragged off by dogs; birds will eat them, and wild animals will devour what is left over.

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall---only to be bitten by a snake!