1. Concerning the Ammonites:Thus says the Lord: Does Israel have no sons?Or has he no heirs?Why then does their king inherit Gadand his people dwell in his cities?
2. Therefore, surely the days are coming,says the Lord,when I will cause an alarm of warto be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites;and it will be a desolate heap,and her towns will be burned with fire.Then Israel will be heirto those who were his heirs,says the Lord.
3. Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai has been devastated!Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah,gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament,and run to and fro inside the walls;for their king shall go into captivity,and his priests and his officials together.
4. Why do you glory in the valleys,your flowing valley,O backsliding daughterwho trusts in her treasures, saying,“Who shall come against me?”
5. I will bring a fear upon you,says the Lord God of Hosts,from all those who are around you;and each of you will be driven out headlong,and no one will gather together the fugitives.
6. Yet afterward I will restore the fortunes of the sons of Ammon,says the Lord.
7. Concerning Edom.Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman?Has counsel perished from the prudent?Has their wisdom vanished?
8. Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths,O inhabitants of Dedan.For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,the time that I punish him.
9. If grape gatherers came to you,would they not leave some gleaning grapes?If thieves came by night,they would destroy until they had enough.
10. But I have made Esau bare,I have uncovered his secret placesso that he will not be able to hide himself.His seed is devastated, and his brothers, and his neighbors,and he is no more.
11. Leave your fatherless children behind. I will preserve them alive;and let your widows trust in Me.
12. For thus says the Lord: They whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who shall go unpunished altogether? You will not go unpunished, but you will surely drink of it.
13. For I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all the cities will become perpetual wastes.
14. I have heard a message from the Lord,and an ambassador has been sent to the nations:“Gather together, and come against her,and rise up to the battle!”
15. For I will make you small among the nations,and despised among men.
16. As for the terror of you,the pride of your heart has deceived you,O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,who hold the height of the hill.Though you make your nest as high as the eagle,I will bring you down from there,says the Lord.
17. Also Edom will become a desolation;everyone who goes by it will be astonished,and will hiss at all its wounds.
18. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrahand the neighboring cities,says the Lord,no man will abide there,nor will a son of man dwell in it.
19. He will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordanagainst the perpetually watered meadow;but I will suddenly make him run away from her.And I will appoint over her whomever I choose.For who is like Me? And who will summon Me into court?Who is the shepherd who can stand against Me?