9. Therefore, as I live,says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel,surely Moab will be like Sodom,and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a land of weeds and salt pits,and a perpetual desolation.The remnant of My people will plunder them,and the survivors of My nation will possess them.
10. This will they have for their pride,because they taunted and boasted againstthe people of the Lord of Hosts.
11. The Lord will be dreadful to them,for He will weaken all the gods of the earth;men will worship Him, every one from his place,all the lands of the nations.
12. You also, O Ethiopians,will be slain by My sword.
13. And He will stretch out His hand against the northand destroy Assyria;and He will make Nineveh a desolation,and dry like the desert.
14. Herds will lie down in her midst,beasts of every kind;the cormorant and the bitternwill lodge on her pillars.Their voice will sing in the windows;desolation will be on the threshold;for He will lay bare the cedar work.
15. This is the rejoicing citythat dwelt securely,that said in her heart,“I am, and there is no one besides me.”How has she become a desolation,a place for beasts to lie down!Everyone who passes by her will hissand shake his fist.