“Do you think that Israel has no children?
    Do you think there is no one to take the land when the parents die?
If that were true, why did Molech take Gad’s land
    and why did Molech’s people settle in Gad’s towns?”
² The Lord says,
“The time will come when I will make Rabbah,
    the capital city of the Ammonites, hear the battle cry.
It will become a hill covered with ruins,
    and the towns around it will be burned.
Those people forced Israel out of that land,
    but now Israel will force them out!” says the Lord.
³ “People in the town of Heshbon, cry sadly because the town of Ai is destroyed!
    Those who live in Rabbah, cry out!
Put on your rough cloth to show your sadness, and cry loudly.
    Run here and there for safety inside the walls,
because Molech will be taken captive
    and his priests and officers with him.
⁴ You brag about your valleys
    and about the fruit in your valleys.
You are like an unfaithful child
    who believes his treasures will save him.
    You think, ‘Who would attack me?’
⁵ I will soon bring terror on you
    from everyone around you,”
    says the Lord God All-Powerful.
“You will all be forced to run away,
    and no one will be able to gather you.

⁶ “But the time will come
    when I will make good things happen to the Ammonites again,”
    says the Lord.