¹To the children of Ammon, thus says Yahweh: Does Israel have no children? Or does he have no heir? Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad, and have his people dwelled in its cities?

²Therefore, behold, days are coming, the utterance of Yahweh, and I will make heard the shout of war against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it will become a mound of wasteland, and her daughters will be set on fire with fire, and Israel will take possession of those who dispossessed it, Yahweh said.

³Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is devastated; cry out, daughters of Rabbah, gird on sackcloth, mourn, and rove about among the sheepfolds; for Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.

⁴Why do you boast in the valleys—your valley flows—O backturning daughter, who trusts in her treasuries: Who will come to me?

⁵Behold, I am bringing fear upon you, the utterance of the Adonai Yahweh of hosts, from all around you; and you will be banished, each man straight before his face, and there is no one who gathers the fugitive.

⁶And after this I will turn back the captivity of the children of Ammon, the utterance of Yahweh.

⁷To Edom: Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from those who discern? Has their wisdom been let loose?

⁸Flee, turn back, go deep to dwell, dwellers of Dedan; for I have brought the disaster of Esau upon him, the time I visited him.

⁹If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, they would ruin only enough for themselves.

¹⁰For I have bared Esau, I have uncovered his hiding places, and he will not be able to hide himself; his seed is devastated, and his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

¹¹Leave your fatherless; I will keep them alive, and let your widows trust in me.

¹²For thus Yahweh says: Behold, those whose justice was not to drink the cup will surely drink; and are you the one who will surely go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you will surely drink.

¹³For I have sworn by myself, the utterance of Yahweh, that Bozrah will become a waste, a reproach, a drought, and a curse; and all her cities will become ruins forever.

¹⁴I have heard a report from Yahweh, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: Gather together and come against her, and rise up for war!

¹⁵For behold, I have made you small among the nations, despised among humankind.

¹⁶Your horror has deceived you, the arrogance of your heart, you who dwell in the clefts of the crag, who seize the height of the hill; though you raise your nest like the eagle, from there I will bring you down, the utterance of Yahweh.

¹⁷And Edom will become a waste; everyone who passes by her will be appalled and will hiss at all her blows.

¹⁸Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbors, Yahweh has said, no one will dwell there, and no son of humankind will sojourn in her.

¹⁹Behold, like a lion he comes up from the majesty of the Jordan to the ever-flowing pasture; for suddenly I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen, I will appoint over it. For who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before my face?

²⁰Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh that he has counseled against Edom, and his thoughts that he has reckoned against the dwellers of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will drag them away; surely he will devastate their pasture because of them.

²¹At the sound of their fall the land shook; the cry—its sound was heard at the Sea of Reeds.

²²Behold, like the eagle he will come up and swoop and spread out his wings over Bozrah; and on that day the heart of the warriors of Edom will be like the heart of a woman in straits.

²³To Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are ashamed, for they have heard an evil report; they have melted away; there is anxiety in the sea, it cannot be quiet.

²⁴Damascus has grown slack; she turned to flee, and trembling has seized her; distress and pangs have taken hold of her, like a woman giving birth.

²⁵How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town of my joy!

²⁶Therefore her young men will fall in her broad places, and all the men of war will be silenced in that day, the utterance of Yahweh of hosts.

²⁷And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.

²⁸Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, this is what Yahweh said: Rise, go up against Kedar, and devastate the children of the east.

²⁹Their tents and their flocks they will take; their curtains and all their utensils and their camels they will carry off for themselves; and they will call out over them, Terror from every side!

³⁰Escape, flee; make your dwelling exceedingly deep, you dwellers of Hazor, the utterance of Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has counselled a plan against you and has reckoned a purpose against you.

³¹Rise, go up against a nation at ease, dwelling in security, the utterance of Yahweh; it has no doors and no bar; they abide alone.

³²And their camels will become plunder, and the hordes of their livestock spoil; and I will scatter them to every wind, those cut off at the corner, and from all its sides I will bring their disaster, the utterance of Yahweh.

³³And Hazor will become a dwelling place of jackals, a wasteland forever; no man will dwell there, and no son of man will sojourn in it.

³⁴The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:

³⁵This is what Yahweh of hosts said: Behold, I am about to break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

³⁶And I will bring against Elam the four winds from the four ends of the skies, and I will scatter them to all these winds, and there will be no nation to which the banished of Elam will not come.

³⁷And I will shatter Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their living being, and I will bring upon them misery, my burning anger, the utterance of Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them until I have made an end of them.

³⁸And I will set my throne in Elam, and I will destroy from there king and officials, the utterance of Yahweh.

³⁹And it will be in the latter end of the days that I will turn back the captivity of Elam, the utterance of Yahweh.