1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus sayth yahawah; hath yasharala (israel) no sonnes? Hath he no heire? Why then doth their king inherit the power, and his people dwell in his cities?
2 Therfore behold, the dayes come, saith yahawah, that I will cause an alarme of warre to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites, and it shall be a desolate heape, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire: then shall Israel be heire vnto them that were his heires, saith yahawah.
3 Howle, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry yee daughters of Rabbah, gird yee with sackcloth: lament and runne to and fro by the hedges: for their king shall goe into captiuitie: and his priests and his princes together.
4 Wherfore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? That trusted in her treasures, saying; Who shall come vnto mee?
5 Behold, I will bring a feare vpon thee, saith yahawah the power of hostes, from all those that be about thee, and yee shall be driuen out euery man right forth, and none shal gather vp him that wandereth.
6 And afterward I will bring againe the captiuitie of the children of Ammon, saith yahawah.
7 ΒΆ Concerning Edom thus saith yahawah of hosts, Is wisedome no more in Teman? is counsell perished from the prudent? is their wisedom vanished?
8 Flee ye, turne backe, dwell deepe, O inhabitants of Dedan: for I will bring the calamitie of Esau vpon him, the time that I will visite him.
9 If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leaue some gleaning grapes? If theeues by night, they will destroy till they haue enough.
10 But I haue made Esau bare, I haue vncouered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himselfe: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren and his neighbours, and he is not.
11 Leaue thy fatherlesse children, I will preserue them aliue: and let thy widowes trust in me.
12 For thus saith yahawah, Behold, they whose iudgement was not to drinke of the cup, haue assuredly drunken, and art thou he that shall altogether go vnpunished? thou shalt not go vnpunished, but thou shalt surely drinke of it.
13 For I haue sworne by my selfe, saith yahawah, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproch, a waste, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetuall wastes.
14 I haue heard a rumor from the Lord, & an ambassadour is sent vnto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together & come against her, & rise vp to the battell.
15 For lo, I wil make thee smal among the heathen, and despised among men.
16 Thy terriblenesse hath deceiued thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocke, that holdest the height of the hill: thogh thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee downe from thence, saith yahawah.
17 Also Edom shalbe a desolation: euery one that goeth by it shalbe astonished, and shall hisse at all the plagues thereof,
18 As in the ouerthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith yahawah: no man shall abide there, neither shall a sonne of man dwell in it.
19 Behold, he shal come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iordane against the habitation of the strong: but I wil suddenly make him runne away from her, and who is a chosen man that I may appoynt ouer her? For who is like mee? And who will appoint me the time? Who is that shepheard that will stand before mee?