“Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then does ^[a]Milcom inherit ^(B)Gad,
And his people dwell in its cities?
^2 (C)Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war
In ^(D)Rabbah of the Ammonites;
It shall be a desolate mound,
And her ^[b]villages shall be burned with fire.
Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance,” says the Lord.

³ “Wail, O ^(E)Heshbon, for Ai is plundered!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah,
^(F)Gird yourselves with sackcloth!
Lament and run to and fro by the walls;
For ^[c]Milcom shall go into captivity
With his ^(G)priests and his princes together.
⁴ Why ^(H)do you boast in the valleys,
^[d]Your flowing valley, O ^(I)backsliding daughter?
Who trusted in her ^(J)treasures, ^(K)saying,
‘Who will come against me?’
⁵ Behold, I will bring fear upon you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts,
“From all those who are around you;
You shall be driven out, everyone headlong,
And no one will gather those who wander off.
⁶ But ^(L)afterward I will bring back
The captives of the people of Ammon,” says the Lord.

“For three transgressions of ^(A)the people of Ammon, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead,
That they might enlarge their territory.
¹⁴ But I will kindle a fire in the wall of ^(B)Rabbah,
And it shall devour its palaces,
^(C)Amid shouting in the day of battle,
And a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
^15 (D)Their king shall go into captivity,
He and his princes together,”
Says the Lord.

⁸ “I^(A) have heard the reproach of Moab,
And ^(B)the insults of the people of Ammon,
With which they have reproached My people,
And ^(C)made arrogant threats against their borders.
⁹ Therefore, as I live,”
Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Surely ^(D)Moab shall be like Sodom,
And ^(E)the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
^(F)Overrun^[a] with weeds and saltpits,
And a ^[b]perpetual desolation.
The residue of My people shall plunder them,
And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”

¹⁰ This they shall have ^(G)for their pride,
Because they have reproached and made arrogant threats
Against the people of the Lord of hosts.
¹¹ The Lord will be awesome to them,
For He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth;
^(H)People shall worship Him,
Each one from his place,
Indeed all ^(I)the shores of the nations.