“Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then does ^[a]Milcom inherit ^(B)Gad,
And his people dwell in its cities?
^2 (C)Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war
In ^(D)Rabbah of the Ammonites;
It shall be a desolate mound,
And her ^[b]villages shall be burned with fire.
Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance,” says the Lord.

³ “Wail, O ^(E)Heshbon, for Ai is plundered!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah,
^(F)Gird yourselves with sackcloth!
Lament and run to and fro by the walls;
For ^[c]Milcom shall go into captivity
With his ^(G)priests and his princes together.
⁴ Why ^(H)do you boast in the valleys,
^[d]Your flowing valley, O ^(I)backsliding daughter?
Who trusted in her ^(J)treasures, ^(K)saying,
‘Who will come against me?’
⁵ Behold, I will bring fear upon you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts,
“From all those who are around you;
You shall be driven out, everyone headlong,
And no one will gather those who wander off.
⁶ But ^(L)afterward I will bring back
The captives of the people of Ammon,” says the Lord.

^(N)“Is wisdom no more in Teman?
^(O)Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom ^(P)vanished?
⁸ Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of ^(Q)Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
The time that I will punish him.
^9 (R)If grape-gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves by night,
Would they not destroy until they have enough?
^10 (S)But I have made Esau bare;
I have uncovered his secret places,
And he shall not be able to hide himself.
His descendants are plundered,
His brethren and his neighbors,
And ^(T)he is no more.
¹¹ Leave your fatherless children,
I will preserve them alive;
And let your widows trust in Me.”

^14 (X)I have heard a message from the Lord,
And an ambassador has been sent to the nations:
“Gather together, come against her,
And rise up to battle!

¹⁵ “For indeed, I will make you small among nations,
Despised among men.
¹⁶ Your fierceness has deceived you,
The ^(Y)pride of your heart,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Who hold the height of the hill!
^(Z)Though you make your ^(AA)nest as high as the eagle,
^(AB)I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

¹⁷ “Edom also shall be an astonishment;
^(AC)Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
And will hiss at all its plagues.
^18 (AD)As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors,” says the Lord,
“No one shall remain there,
Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.

¹⁹ “Behold,^(AE) he shall come up like a lion from ^(AF)the ^[g]floodplain of the Jordan
Against the dwelling place of the strong;
But I will suddenly make him run away from her.
And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?
For ^(AG)who is like Me?
Who will arraign Me?
And ^(AH)who is that shepherd
Who will withstand Me?”

^20 (AI)Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Edom,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely the least of the flock shall ^[h]draw them out;
Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
^21 (AJ)The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;
At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
²² Behold, ^(AK)He shall come up and fly like the eagle,
And spread His wings over Bozrah;
The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

^(AM)“Hamath and Arpad are shamed,
For they have heard bad news.
They are fainthearted;
^(AN)There is ^[i]trouble on the sea;
It cannot be quiet.
²⁴ Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
^(AO)Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in ^[j]labor.
²⁵ Why is ^(AP)the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?
^26 (AQ)Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets,
And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord of hosts.
²⁷ “I^(AR) will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”

“Arise, go up to Kedar,
And devastate ^(AT)the men of the East!
²⁹ Their ^(AU)tents and their flocks they shall take away.
They shall take for themselves their curtains,
All their vessels and their camels;
And they shall cry out to them,
^(AV)‘Fear is on every side!’

³⁰ “Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Hazor!” says the Lord.
“For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,
And has conceived a plan against you.

³¹ “Arise, go up to ^(AW)the wealthy nation that dwells securely,” says the Lord,
“Which has neither gates nor bars,
^(AX)Dwelling alone.
³² Their camels shall be for booty,
And the multitude of their cattle for plunder.
I will ^(AY)scatter to all winds those ^[k]in the farthest corners,
And I will bring their calamity from all its sides,” says the Lord.
³³ “Hazor ^(AZ)shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forever;
No one shall reside there,
Nor son of man dwell in it.”

‘Behold, I will break ^(BC)the ^[l]bow of Elam,
The foremost of their might.
³⁶ Against Elam I will bring the four winds
From the four quarters of heaven,
And scatter them toward all those winds;
There shall be no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go.
³⁷ For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies
And before those who seek their life.
^(BD)I will bring disaster upon them,
My fierce anger,’ says the Lord;
‘And I will send the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.
³⁸ I will ^(BE)set My throne in Elam,
And will destroy from there the king and the princes,’ says the Lord.

³⁹ ‘But it shall come to pass ^(BF)in the latter days:
I will bring back the captives of Elam,’ says the Lord.”