^{16 Ref} and he saith, `Thus said Jehovah, Make this valley ditches -- ditches;

^{17 Ref} for thus said Jehovah, Ye do not see wind, nor do ye see rain, and that valley is full of water, and ye have drunk -- ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.

^{18 Ref} `And this hath been light in the eyes of Jehovah, and he hath given Moab into your hand,

^{19 Ref} and ye have smitten every fenced city, and every choice city, and every good tree ye cause to fall, and all fountains of waters ye stop, and every good portion ye mar with stones.'

^{20 Ref} And it cometh to pass in the morning, at the ascending of the `morning'-present, that lo, waters are coming in from the way of Edom, and the land is filled with the waters,