For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants outside, and the young men from the streets.

Therefore deliver up their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword. Let their women be childless and widows, and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

Moab is ruined, [even] his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.

Therefore shall the young men fall in your streets, and all your warriors shall fall, says the Lord.

Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on, and spare not her young men, but destroy all her host.

And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced through shall fall without it.

For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against you, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

A sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened. A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots.

For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless; for God recompenses them.

The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her captains completely drunk, says the King, the Lord Almighty is His name.

And the kings of the earth, and the magnates and the high-ranking military men, and the rich and the mighty, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the crags of the mountains.

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who ride on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great."