2. Therefore, behold, the days are coming,declares the Lord,when I will cause the battle cry to be heardagainst Rabbah of the Ammonites;it shall become a desolate mound,and its villages shall be burned with fire;then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,says the Lord.
3. “Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth,lament, and run to and fro among the hedges!For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his officials.
4. Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying,‘Who will come against me?’
5. Behold, I will bring terror upon you,declares the Lord God of hosts,from all who are around you,and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him,with none to gather the fugitives.
6. “But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the Lord.”
7. Concerning Edom.Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more 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 when I punish him.
9. If grape gatherers came to you,would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night,would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
10. But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places,and he is not able to conceal himself.His children are destroyed, and his brothers,and his neighbors; and he is no more.
11. Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”
12. For thus says the Lord: “If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
13. For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”
14. I have heard a message from the Lord,and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves together and come against her,and rise up for battle!
15. For behold, I will make you small among the nations,despised among mankind.
16. The horror you inspire has deceived you,and the pride of your heart,you who live in the clefts of the rock,who hold the height of the hill.Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,I will bring you down from there,declares the Lord.
17. “Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
18. As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.
19. Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?