¹ Concerning the Ammonites, thus hath the LORD said: Does Israel have no sons? does he have no heir? why [then] does their king inherit Gad and his people dwell in his cities?

² Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be [made] a desolate heap, and her cities shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel be heir unto those that were his heirs, said the LORD.

³ Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament and run to and fro by the hedges, for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.

⁴ Why gloriest thou in the valleys? Thy valley has slipped, O backsliding daughter that trusted in her treasures, she that saith, Who shall come against me?

⁵ Behold, I bring fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts, from all sides; and ye shall be driven out each man right forth in the direction he is facing; and no one shall gather up him that wanders.

⁶ And afterward I will turn again the captivity of the sons of Ammon, said the LORD.

⁷ Concerning Edom, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Has the counsel of the wise perished? Is their wisdom corrupted?

⁸ Flee, turn back, hide in the deeps to remain, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, at the time [that] I have to visit him.

⁹ If grapegatherers came against thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, they will take what they have need of.

¹⁰ But I will make Esau bare, I will uncover his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed shall be destroyed, and his brethren and his neighbours and he shall no longer be.

¹¹ Leave thy fatherless children; I will raise them; and thy widows shall trust in me.

¹² For thus hath the LORD said: Behold, those who were not condemned to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and shalt thou be absolved of everything? Thou shalt not be absolved, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].

¹³ For I have sworn by myself, said the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.

¹⁴ I have heard the news, that from the LORD a messenger had been sent unto the Gentiles, [saying], Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

¹⁵ For, behold, I have placed thee as small among the Gentiles [and] despised among men.

¹⁶ Thy arrogance has deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dost dwell in the clefts of the rock, that dost hold the height of the mountain: though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from there, said the LORD.

¹⁷ Also Edom shall be a desolation; every one that goes by it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all its plagues.

¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, said the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

¹⁹ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the strong habitation: for I will make rest and make him run from upon her, and he who [is] chosen I shall appoint over her; for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?

²⁰ Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Edom; and his thoughts, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall destroy their habitations with them.

²¹ The earth is moved at the noise of their fall; at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

²² Behold, he shall rise up and fly as the eagle and spread his wings over Bozrah; and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

²³ Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad, for they have heard bad news; they have melted in waters of feebleness; they cannot be reassured.

²⁴ Damascus is waxed feeble [and] turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on [her]; anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in travail.

²⁵ How did they not forgive the city of praise, the city of my joy!

²⁶ Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, said the LORD of the hosts.

²⁷ And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the houses of Benhadad.

²⁸ Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote, thus hath the LORD said; Arise ye, go up to Kedar and destroy the men of the east.

²⁹ Their tents and their flocks shall they take away; they shall take to themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels; and they shall invoke fear on every side against them.

³⁰ Flee, get you far off, dwell in the deeps that [ye] may stand, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, said the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you and has conceived a purpose against you.

³¹ Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwells without care, saith the LORD, which has neither gates nor bars, [which] dwells alone.

³² And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter them into all [the] winds, throwing them out unto the utmost corner; and from all their sides I will bring their ruin, said the LORD.

³³ And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons [and] a desolation for ever: no man shall abide there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.

³⁴ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet regarding Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

³⁵ Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Behold, I break the bow of Elam, the foundation of their might.

³⁶ And upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

³⁷ For I will cause Elam to fear before their enemies and before those that seek their soul; and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, said the LORD; and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.

³⁸ And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from there the king and the princes, said the LORD.

³⁹ But it shall come to pass in the last of the days [that] I will turn again the captivity of Elam, said the LORD.: