14. ‘How can you say, “We are warriors,men valiant in battle”?
15. Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded;her finest young men will go down in the slaughter,’declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
16. ‘The fall of Moab is at hand;her calamity will come quickly.
17. Mourn for her, all who live around her,all who know her fame;say, “How broken is the mighty sceptre,how broken the glorious staff !”