8. “I have heard the taunts of Moaband the revilings of the Ammonites,how they have taunted my peopleand made boasts against their territory.
9. Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,the God of Israel,“Moab shall become like Sodom,and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,and a waste forever.The remnant of my people shall plunder them,and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10. This shall be their lot in return for their pride,because they taunted and boastedagainst the people of the Lord of hosts.
11. The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth,and to him shall bow down,each in its place,all the lands of the nations.
12. You also, O Cushites,shall be slain by my sword.
13. And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria,and he will make Nineveh a desolation,a dry waste like the desert.