“Are there no sons for Israel?
    Or is there no heir for him?
Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad,
    and his people dwelled in its towns?
² Therefore^[b] look, days are coming,” declares^[c] Yahweh,
“and I will sound against Rabbah, the Ammonites,^[d]
    the alarm of the war,
and it will become as a mound of desolation,
    and its daughters will burn in the fire.
Then Israel will dispossess his dispossessors,” says Yahweh.
³ “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated.
    Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth.
    Lament and run back and forth among the walls.
For Milcom will go into exile,
    his priests and his officials together.
⁴ Why do you boast in your valleys?
    Your valleys^[e] are ebbing.
O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures,
    who said, ‘Who will come against me?’
⁵ Look, I am going to bring dread on you,”
declares^[f] Lord Yahweh of hosts,
    “from all your surrounding neighbors.
And you will be scattered,
    each one before it,^[g]
and there is no one who gathers the fugitives.^[h]
6 Yet afterward^[i] I will restore
    the fortunes^[j] of the Ammonites,”^[k] declares^[l] Yahweh.