Has Israel no sons?
    Has he no heir?
Why then has Milcom^[a] dispossessed Gad
    and his people settled in its towns?^(A)
2 Therefore, the time is surely coming,
    says the Lord,
when I will sound the battle alarm
    against Rabbah of the Ammonites;
it shall become a desolate mound,
    and its villages shall be burned with fire;
then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,
    says the Lord.^(B)

³ Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
    Cry out, O daughters^[b] of Rabbah!
Put on sackcloth,
    lament, and slash yourselves with whips!^[c]
For Milcom^[d] shall go into exile,
    with his priests and his attendants.^(C)
4 Why do you boast in your strength?
    Your strength is ebbing,
O faithless daughter.
    Who trusted in her treasures, saying,^[e]
    “Who will attack me?”^(D)
5 I am going to bring terror upon you,
    says the Lord God of hosts,
    from all your neighbors,
and you will be scattered, each headlong,
    with no one to gather the fugitives.^(E)

¹³ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of the Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^[a]
because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead
    in order to enlarge their territory.^(A)
14 So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah,
    and it shall devour its strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
    with a storm on the day of the whirlwind;^(B)
15 then their king shall go into exile,
    he and his officials together,
            says the Lord.^(C)

⁸ I have heard the taunts of Moab
    and the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
    and made boasts against their territory.^(A)
9 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
Moab shall become like Sodom
    and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits
    and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.^(B)
10 This shall be their lot in return for their pride,
    because they scoffed and boasted
    against the people of the Lord of hosts.^(C)
11 The Lord will be terrible against them;
    he will shrivel all the gods of the earth,
and to him shall bow down
    each in its place,
    all the coasts and islands of the nations.^(D)

A sword, a sword! Drawn for slaughter,
    polished to consume,^[a] to flash like lightning.^(A)
29 Offering false visions for you,
    divining lies for you,
they place you over the necks
    of the vile, wicked ones—
those whose day has come,
    the time of final punishment.^(B)
30 Return it to its sheath!
In the place where you were created,
    in the land of your origin,
    I will judge you.^(C)
31 I will pour out my indignation upon you;
    with the fire of my wrath
    I will blow upon you.
I will deliver you into brutish hands,
    those skillful to destroy.^(D)
32 You shall be fuel for the fire,
    your blood shall enter the earth;
you shall be remembered no more,
    for I the Lord have spoken.^(E)