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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.
Make Moab a salt marsh,[a](C)
for she will run away;[b]
her towns will become a desolation,
without inhabitant.(D)

10 The one who does
the Lord’s business deceitfully[c] is cursed,(E)
and the one who withholds
his sword from bloodshed is cursed.

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Footnotes

  1. 48:9 LXX reads a sign; Vg reads a flower; Syr, Tg read a crown
  2. 48:9 Hb obscure
  3. 48:10 Or negligently