1. Concerning the Ammonites: Thus says Yahweh, “Are there no sons for Israel? Or is there no heir for him? Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad, and his people dwelled in its towns?
2. Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “and I will sound against Rabbah, the Ammonites, the alarm of the war, and it will become as a mound of desolation, and its daughters will burn in the fire. Then Israel will dispossess his dispossessors,” says Yahweh.
3. “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.
4. Why do you boast in your valleys? Your valleys are ebbing. O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures, who said, ‘Who will come against me?’
5. Look, I am going to bring dread on you,” declares Lord Yahweh of hosts, “from all your surrounding neighbors. And you will be scattered, each one before it, and there is no one who gathers the fugitives.
6. Yet afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites,” declares Yahweh.
7. Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel become lost from those who understand? Is their wisdom rotting?
8. Flee! Turn back! Get down low! O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau at the time when I will punish him.