15. But now bring me a minstrel. And while the minstrel played, the hand and power of the Lord came upon [Elisha].
16. And he said, Thus says the Lord: Make this [dry] brook bed full of trenches.
17. For thus says the Lord: You shall not see wind or rain, yet that ravine shall be filled with water, so you, your cattle, and your beasts [of burden] may drink.
18. This is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will deliver the Moabites also into your hands.
19. You shall smite every fenced city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree and stop all wells of water and mar every good piece of land with stones.
20. In the morning, when the sacrifice was offered, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
21. When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, gathered and drew up at the border.
22. When they rose up early next morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water across from them as red as blood.
23. And they said, This is blood; the kings have surely been fighting and have slain one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!