For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the hand of the sword. Let their wives be bereaved, and become widows. Let their men be slain to death, and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

Moab is plundered and has gone up out of her cities. And his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be silenced in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Do not let the archer tread and bend his bow; nor lift himself up in his armor. And do not spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, those thrust through in her streets.

Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is captured shall fall by the sword.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not value silver; and they shall not delight in gold.

A sword is upon the liars, and they shall become fools. A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

because the plunderer has come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are captured. Every one of their bows is broken, for Jehovah, the Mighty God of recompenses, makes good the recompense.

And I will make her rulers drunk, along with her wise ones, her governors, and her officials, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a never-ending sleep and not wake up, says the King whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.

And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

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