World English Bible
"He said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this valley full of trenches.'"
— 2 Kings 3:16, World English Bible
“And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.”
“And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full of trenches. ”
“and he said,“This is what the LORD has said,‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’”
“Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.”
“And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.”
“And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.”
Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother." The king of Israel said to him, "No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."
Elisha said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
But now bring me a minstrel." It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him.
He said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this valley full of trenches.'
For thus says Yahweh, 'You will not see wind, neither will you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your animals.
This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"