⁸ The Destroyer will come against every town.
    Not one town will escape.
The valley will be ruined.
    The high plain will be destroyed.
The Lord said this would happen,
    so it will happen.
⁹ Spread salt over the fields in Moab.
    The country will be an empty desert.^[a]
Moab’s towns will become empty.
    No one will live in them.
¹⁰ Bad things will happen to those who
    don’t obey the Lord and don’t use their swords to kill those people.