## its finest young men have gone down to the place of slaughter. ##

AT: "Their fine young men will all be slaughtered." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

## Moab's disaster is soon to happen; calamity is hurrying quickly ##

These two sentences mean basically the same thing. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

## the strong staff, the honored rod ##

These two phrases are referring to Moab. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]], [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])