1 For the children of Ammon. Thus says the LORD: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has their king inherited Gad, and his people taken up residence in its towns?
2 Therefore, see, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make the shout of war heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; it will become a desolate heap, and its daughters will be burned with fire; then Israel will dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD.
3 Howl, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah; wrap yourselves in sackcloth, mourn, and run back and forth among the walls! For their king will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.
4 Why do you boast of the valleys, your flowing valley, you turning-away daughter, who trusts in her treasures: 'Who will come against me?'
5 See, I am bringing terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, from all who surround you; you will be driven out, each straight ahead, with no one to gather the fugitives.
6 But after this I will restore the fortunes of the children of Ammon, declares the LORD."
7 For Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is there wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel vanished from the discerning? Has their wisdom gone sour?
8 Flee, turn back, dwell deep down, inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him, the time I punish him.
9 If grape pickers came to you, would they leave no gleanings? If thieves came at night, they would ruin only as much as they wanted.
10 But I myself have stripped Esau; I have laid bare his secret places, and he cannot hide. His seed is ruined, with his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.
11 Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me."
12 For thus says the LORD: "See, those who were not sentenced to drink the cup will surely drink it; and are you the one to go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you will surely drink.
13 For by myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse, and all her towns will be ruins forever."
14 I have heard news from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Gather together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
15 For see, I have made you small among the nations, despised among men.
16 The terror you inspired has deceived you, the pride of your heart, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.
17 Edom will become a horror; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss over all its blows.
18 As with the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says the LORD, no man will live there, no son of man will sojourn in it.
19 Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan against the ever-flowing pasture; for in an instant I will make him run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like me? Who will summon me? And who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
20 So hear the counsel the LORD has taken against Edom, and the plans he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged off; surely their pasture will be appalled over them.
21 At the sound of their fall the earth quakes; there is a cry, its sound is heard at the Red Sea.
22 See, like an eagle he will go up and swoop, and spread out his wings against Bozrah; and the heart of Edom's warriors on that day will be like the heart of a woman in her pangs."
23 For Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are shamed, for they have heard evil news; they melt away; at sea there is anxiety; it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus has gone limp; she turns to flee, and trembling has gripped her; distress and pains have seized her like a woman giving birth.
25 How has the city of praise not been abandoned, the town of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all the fighting men will be silenced on that day, declares the LORD of hosts.
27 I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the strongholds of Ben-hadad."
28 For Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says the LORD: "Get up, go up against Kedar, and destroy the sons of the east!
29 Their tents and their flocks they will take; their curtains and all their vessels and their camels they will carry off for themselves, and they will shout to them, 'Terror on every side!'
30 Flee, wander far off, dwell deep down, inhabitants of Hazor, declares the LORD! For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you and devised a plan against you.
31 Get up, go up against a nation at ease, living in security, declares the LORD, which has neither gates nor bars; they dwell alone.
32 Their camels will become plunder, and the multitude of their livestock spoil; I will scatter to every wind those who clip the corners of their hair, and from every side I will bring their disaster, declares the LORD.
33 Hazor will become a lair of jackals, a waste forever; no man will live there, no son of man will sojourn in it."
34 What came as the word of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah:
35 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: See, I am breaking the bow of Elam, the first of their strength.
36 I will bring on Elam four winds from the four ends of the heavens and scatter them to all these winds; there will be no nation to which the outcasts of Elam will not come.
37 I will shatter Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life; I will bring evil on them, my burning anger, declares the LORD, and I will send the sword after them until I have finished them off.
38 I will set my throne in Elam and wipe out from there king and officials, declares the LORD.
39 And it will come about in the end of days that I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the LORD."