² A troubling vision is declared to me:
“The treacherous one acts treacherously,^(A)
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all the groaning.”

¹⁶ Look, I have created the craftsman
who blows on the charcoal fire
and produces a weapon suitable for its task;
and I have created the destroyer to cause havoc.

⁸ The destroyer^(A) will move against every town;
not one town will escape.
The valley will perish,
and the plain will be annihilated,^(B)
as the Lord has said.

¹⁵ The destroyer of Moab and its towns
has come up,^[a]
and the best of its young men
have gone down to slaughter.
This is the King’s declaration;
the Lord of Armies is his name.^(A)

¹⁸ Come down from glory; sit on parched ground,
resident of the daughter of Dibon,^(A)
for the destroyer of Moab has come against you;
he has destroyed your fortresses.

³² I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah,
with more than the weeping for Jazer.
Your tendrils have extended to the sea;
they have reached to the sea and to Jazer.^[a]
The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruit and grape harvest.