²¹ Death has climbed in through our windows^(A)
    and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
    and the young men^(B) from the public squares.

²¹ So give their children over to famine;^(A)
    hand them over to the power of the sword.^(B)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;^(C)
    let their men be put to death,
    their young men^(D) slain by the sword in battle.

¹⁵ Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded;
    her finest young men^(A) will go down in the slaughter,^(B)”
    declares the King,^(C) whose name is the Lord Almighty.^(D)

²⁶ Surely, her young men^(A) will fall in the streets;
    all her soldiers will be silenced^(B) in that day,”
declares the Lord Almighty.

¹⁰ “I sent plagues^(A) among you
    as I did to Egypt.^(B)
I killed your young men^(C) with the sword,
    along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench^(D) of your camps,
    yet you have not returned to me,”^(E)
declares the Lord.^(F)

“the lovely young women and strong young men^(A)
    will faint because of thirst.^(B)