Anyone who flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap. ¹  For the time is coming when I will punish the people of Moab. ²  I, the Lord, affirm it! ³ 

Therefore ¹  the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, ²  so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

A person with great anger bears the penalty, ¹  but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again. ² 

But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; ¹  even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done. ² 

“The way you have lived and the things you have done ¹  will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. ²  The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.” ³ 

But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, ¹  because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, ¹  my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.” ² 

“Speak kindly to ¹  Jerusalem, ²  and tell her that her time of warfare is over, ³  that her punishment is completed. ⁴  For the Lord has made her pay double ⁵  for all her sins.”

Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things? No, they are not at all ashamed! They do not even know how to blush! So they will die just like others have died. ¹  They will be brought to ruin when I punish them, says the Lord.

“Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity ¹  of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.

I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days ¹  for you – 390 days. ²  So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. ³ 

I will therefore have him flogged ¹  and release him.” ² 

If ¹  your children sinned against him, he gave them over ²  to the penalty ³  of their sin.

Whether it is for punishment ¹  for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark. ² 

(May those who hate the Lord ¹  cower in fear ²  before him! May they be permanently humiliated!) ³ 

How will he severely punish you, you deceptive talker? ¹ 

So it is with ¹  the one who has sex with ²  his neighbor’s wife; no one ³  who touches ⁴  her will escape ⁵  punishment. ⁶ 

Severe discipline ¹  is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof ²  will die.

The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation ¹  with the Lord who commands armies.

I will avenge ¹  their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!