Does Israel have no sons?
Is he without an heir?
Why then has Milcom^[a][b] dispossessed Gad^(B)
and his people settled in their cities?
² Therefore look, the days are coming—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will make the shout of battle^(C) heard
against Rabbah of the Ammonites.
It will become a desolate mound,
and its villages will be burned down.
Israel will dispossess their dispossessors,
says the Lord.
³ Wail, Heshbon,^(D) for Ai is devastated;
cry out, daughters of Rabbah!
Clothe yourselves with sackcloth,^(E) and lament;
run back and forth within your walls,^[c]
because Milcom will go into exile
together with his priests and officials.^(F)
4 Why do you brag about your valleys,
your flowing valley,^[d]
you faithless daughter?
You who trust in your treasures
and boast, “Who can attack me?”
⁵ Look, I am about to bring terror on you^(G)—
this is the declaration of
the Lord God of Hosts—
from all those around you.
You will be banished, each man headlong,
with no one to gather up the fugitives.
⁶ But after that, I will restore the fortunes^[e] of the Ammonites.^(H)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

⁸ I have heard the taunting of Moab
and the insults of the Ammonites,^(A)
who have taunted My people
and threatened their territory.
⁹ Therefore, as I live—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel—
Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah^(B)—
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.
¹⁰ This is what they get for their pride,
because they have taunted and acted arrogantly^(C)
against the people of the Lord of Hosts.
¹¹ The Lord will be terrifying to them
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.