4. Why boast in your strength,your ebbing strength, rebellious daughter?Why trust in your treasures, saying,“Who would dare attack me?”
5. See, I am bringing terror upon you—oracle of the Lord God of hosts—from all around you;You shall be scattered, each in headlong flight,with no one to gather the fugitives.
6. But afterward I will restore the fortunesof the Ammonites—oracle of the Lord.
7. Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts:Is there no more wisdom in Teman,has counsel perished from the prudent,is their wisdom gone?
8. Flee, retreat, hide deep for lodging,inhabitants of Dedan:For I bring disaster upon Esauwhen I come to punish them.
9. If vintagers came upon you,they would leave no gleanings;If thieves by night,they would destroy as they pleased.