4. Why do you boast of your valleys,boast of your valleys so fruitful?Unfaithful Daughter Ammon,you trust in your riches and say,“Who will attack me?”
5. I will bring terror on youfrom all those around you,’declares the Lord,the Lord Almighty.‘Every one of you will be driven away,and no one will gather the fugitives.
6. ‘Yet afterwards, I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites,’declares the Lord.
7. Concerning Edom:This is what the Lord Almighty says:‘Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?Has counsel perished from the prudent?Has their wisdom decayed?
8. Turn and flee, hide in deep caves,you who live in Dedan,for I will bring disaster on Esauat the time when I punish him.
9. If grape-pickers came to you,would they not leave a few grapes?If thieves came during the night,would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
10. But I will strip Esau bare;I will uncover his hiding-places,so that he cannot conceal himself.His armed men are destroyed,also his allies and neighbours,so there is no one to say,