We are terrified and trapped. We are broken and destroyed.”

恐惧和陷坑，残害和毁灭，都临近我们。

惊吓和陷阱临到我们，残害和毁灭也临到我们。

惊吓和陷阱临到我们，残害和毁灭也临到我们。

我们充满恐惧，面临陷阱、残害和毁灭。”

我们遭遇的，只是恐惧、陷阱、毁坏和灭亡。”

恐懼和陷坑，殘害和毀滅，都臨近我們。

驚嚇和陷阱臨到我們，殘害和毀滅也臨到我們。

驚嚇和陷阱臨到我們，殘害和毀滅也臨到我們。

我們充滿恐懼，面臨陷阱、殘害和毀滅。」

我們遭遇的，只是恐懼、陷阱、毀壞和滅亡。”

驚恐、陷坑、都臨到我們身上了！破毁打破也來了！

驚惶陷阱、我皆罹之、殘害滅亡、我亦遭之兮、

我常驚駭、罹於陷阱、殲滅殆盡兮。

我常驚惶、罹於陷阱、既遭災害、災害或作損壞因而敗亡、

We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”

panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;

We are filled with fear, for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined.”

We have experienced panic and pitfall, devastation and destruction.”

Panic and pitfall have come upon us, Devastation and destruction;

Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.

Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

We have experienced panic and pitfall, devastation and destruction.

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”

Listen, you people of the earth. Terror, a pit and a trap are waiting for you.Anyone who runs away from the terror will fall into the pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. The Lord will open the windows of the skies. He will flood the land. The foundations of the earth will shake.

Nothing but trouble has come to you. You have been wiped out and destroyed. And you have suffered hunger and war. No one feels sorry for you. No one can comfort you.

You people of Moab,” announces the Lord,“ terror, a pit and a trap are waiting for you.Anyone who runs away from the terror will fall into the pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. The time is coming when I will punish Moab,” announces the Lord.

“ He sent down fire from heaven. It went deep down into my bones. He spread a net to catch me by the feet. He stopped me right where I was. He made me empty. I am sick all the time.

That day will come on every person who lives on the whole earth.

See how the Lord covered the city of Zion with the cloud of his anger! He threw Israel’s glory down from heaven to earth. When he was angry, he turned his back on his own city.Without pity the Lord swallowed up all the homes of Jacob’s people. When he was angry, he tore down the forts of the people of Judah. He brought down their kingdom and princes to the ground in dishonor.When he was very angry, he took away Israel’s power. He pulled back his powerful right hand as the enemy approached. His burning anger blazed out in Jacob’s land. It burned up everything near it.Like an enemy the Lord got his bow ready to use. He had a sword in his right hand. Like an enemy he destroyed everything that used to be pleasing to him. His anger blazed out like fire. It burned up the homes in the city of Zion.The Lord was like an enemy. He swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all of its palaces. He destroyed its forts. He filled the people of Judah with sorrow and sadness.The Lord’ s temple was like a garden. But he completely destroyed it. He destroyed the place where he used to meet with his people. He made Zion’s people forget their appointed feasts and Sabbath days. When he was very angry, he turned his back on king and priest alike.The Lord deserted his altar. He left his temple. He gave the walls of Jerusalem’s palaces into the hands of her enemies. They shouted loudly in the house of the Lord. You would have thought it was the day of an appointed feast.The Lord decided to tear down the walls around the city of Zion. He measured out what he wanted to destroy. Then he destroyed Jerusalem by his power. He made even her towers and walls sing songs of sadness. All of them fell down.Her gates sank down into the ground. He broke the metal bars that locked her gates, and he destroyed them. Her king and princes were taken away to other nations. There is no law anymore. Jerusalem’s prophets no longer receive visions from the Lord.

The roads to Zion are empty. No one travels to her appointed feasts. All the public places near her gates are deserted. Her priests groan. Her young women are sad. And Zion herself weeps bitterly.