"You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.

I trust in the LORD for safety. How foolish of you to say to me, "Fly away like a bird to the mountains,

I wish I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and find rest.

They wait on the banks of the Arnon River and move aimlessly back and forth, like birds driven from their nest.

She was given the two wings of a large eagle in order to fly to her place in the desert, where she will be taken care of for three and a half years, safe from the dragon's attack.

Get ready to be taken prisoner, you people of Egypt! Memphis will be made a desert, a ruin where no one lives.

As surely as I am the living LORD, the God of Israel, I swear that Moab and Ammon are going to be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. They will become a place of salt pits and everlasting ruin, overgrown with weeds. Those of my people who survive will plunder them and take their land."