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14 “How can you say, ‘We’re strong warriors,
    and soldiers ready[a] for battle’?
15 Moab will be destroyed,
    and the enemy[b] will come up against her cities.
Her finest young men will go down to slaughter,”
    declares the King,
        whose name is the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.
16 “Moab’s disaster is near at hand,
    and his calamity is coming very quickly.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:14 The Heb. lacks ready
  2. Jeremiah 48:15 Lit. he