1Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says:
2Therefore behold, the days come,”
3“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
4Why do you boast in the valleys,
5Behold, I will bring a terror on you,”
6“But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon,”
7Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says:
8Flee! Turn back!
9If grape gatherers came to you,
10But I have made Esau bare,
11Leave your fatherless children.
12For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.
13For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
14I have heard news from Yahweh,
15“For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,
16As for your terror,
17“Edom will become an astonishment.
18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
19“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation;
20Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom,
21The earth trembles at the noise of their fall;
22Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle,
23Of Damascus:
24Damascus has grown feeble,
25How is the city of praise not forsaken,
26Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,
27“I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
28Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, Yahweh says:
29They will take their tents and their flocks.
30Flee!
31Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease,
32Their camels will be a booty,
33Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals,
34Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35“Yahweh of Armies says:
36I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky,
37I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
38I will set my throne in Elam,
39‘But it will happen in the latter days