I will bring terror on you from every side. You will all run away. Each one will run for his life, and there will be no one to bring your troops together again.

The enemy will attack Bozrah like an eagle swooping down with outspread wings. On that day Edom's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor."

The people of Damascus are weak and have fled in terror. They are in pain and misery like a woman in labor.

Seize their tents and their flocks, their tent curtains and everything in their tents. Take their camels and tell the people, 'Terror is all around you!'

Moab has been shattered! Cry out! Moab has been disgraced. It is in ruins, and all the surrounding nations make fun of it. I, the LORD, have spoken."

Death to its lying prophets--- what fools they are! Death to its soldiers--- how terrified they are!

The kings gathered together and came to attack Mount Zion.

There they were seized with fear and anguish, like a woman about to bear a child,

and their graves are in the deepest parts of the world of the dead. All her soldiers fell in battle, and their graves surround her tomb. Yet once they terrified the land of the living.

I will hand them over to their enemies, who want to kill them, and their corpses will be eaten by birds and wild animals.

I will also hand over King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials to those who want to kill them. I will hand them over to the Babylonian army, which has stopped its attack against you.

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have heard about, and I will send armies against them until I have completely destroyed them."

the splendor of Moab is gone. The enemy have captured Heshbon and plot to destroy the nation of Moab. The town of Madmen will be silenced; armies will march against it.

I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.

Burn up a third of it in the city when the siege is over. Take another third and chop it up with your sword as you move around outside the city. Scatter the remaining third to the winds, and I will pursue it with my sword.

A third of your people will die from sickness and hunger in the city; a third will be cut down by swords outside the city; and I will scatter the last third to the winds and pursue them with a sword.

I will scatter in every direction all the members of his court and his advisers and bodyguards, and people will search for them to kill them.