Therefore, may their children experience food shortages, and let them be killed by the sword. May death and warfare take away the men and youths, leaving the women as childless widows.
The destroyer has attacked the cities and destroyed Moab, and the best of her young men have gone down to the slaughter,” declares King Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies.
Nevertheless, I, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, say to you: On that day, the enemy will kill your young men in the streets, and all your warriors will perish.
For Death has crept in through our windows, forcing its way past our fortified defenses, cutting down the child playing outside and the young men in the streets.
Come and devour the flesh of the kings, generals, and soldiers, the flesh of horses and their riders, the flesh of all people, slave or free, lowly or famous.”
Then the kings of the earth and its great princes and generals, the rich and powerful, and everyone, whether they were slave or free, ran for cover and hid in the caves and among the mountain boulders.