1Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says:
2Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
3Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed;
4Why do you boast of your valleys—
5Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you,
6Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,49:6 Or restore the fortunes of the Ammonites”
7Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says:
8Turn and run!
9If grape gatherers came to you,
10But I will strip Esau bare;
11Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives.
12For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
13For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
14I have heard a message from the LORD;
15“For behold, I will make you small among nations,
16The terror you cause
17“Edom will become an object of horror.
18As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown
19Behold, one will come up like a lion
20Therefore hear the plans
21At the sound of their fall the earth will quake;
22Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down,
23Concerning Damascus:
24Damascus has become feeble;
25How is the city of praise not forsaken,
26For her young men will fall in the streets,
27“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus;
28Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says:
29They will take their tents and flocks,
30Run! Escape quickly!
31Rise up, advance against a nation at ease,
32Their camels will become plunder,
33“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals,49:33 Or serpents or dragons
34This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.
35This is what the LORD of Hosts says:
36I will bring the four winds against Elam
37So I will shatter Elam before their foes,
38I will set My throne in Elam,
39“Yet in the last days,