The Judgment against Israel”s Malignant Foes

25 “This word of Jehovah came to me again, " 2 Son of man, turn thy face toward the Ammonites, and prophesy against them, 3 and say to the Ammonites: “Hear the word of Jehovah: ‘Thus saith Jehovah, Because thou saidst, Aha, over my sanctuary when it was defiled, and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste, and over the house of Judah when it went into captivity, 4 therefore I am about to give thee to the sons of the East as a pos- session. “They shall pitch their tents in thee, and set up in thee their dwell- ings; they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk; 5 and I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the cities of the Ammonites a grazing place for flocks, that ye may know that I am Jehovah.’

6 Thus saith Jehovah, "Because thou didst clap thy hands and stamp thy feet, and didst rejoice maliciously over the land of Israel; 7 therefore I will stretch out my hand against thee, and make thee the spoil of the nations, and I will cut thee off from the peoples and cause thee to perish out of the lands; I will destroy thee that thou mayest know that I am Jehovah.’”

8 Thus saith Jehovah, Because Moab saith: “Behold the house of Judah has become like all the nations,” 9 therefore behold, I will lay open the flank of Moab, from the cities of its borders to the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, 10 and I will give it, together with the Am- monites, to the sons of the East as a possession, that Rabbath-ammon may be no more remembered among the nations. 11 And on Moab will I execute judgment, that they may know that I am Jehovah.

12 Thus saith Jehovah, Because Edom hath acted revengefully toward the house of Judah, and hath incurred great guilt by taking bitter revenge, 13 therefore thus saith Jehovah, “I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it man and beast, and make it desolate; from Teman to Dedan they shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will execute my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they shall do to Edom according to my anger and my fury, and she shall know my vengeance,” is the oracle of Jehovah.

15 Thus saith Jehovah, Because the Philistines acted revengefully, and took revenge in a spirit of spite to destroy in perpetual hate, 16 therefore thus saith Jehovah, “Behold, I will stretch out my hands against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the rest of the sea-coast, 17 and execute great vengeance upon them, that they may know that I am Jehovah, when I execute my vengeance upon them.”

26 “In the eleventh year, the first day of the first month, this word of Jehovah came to me: 2 Son of man, because Tyre hath said concerning Jerusalem:

“Aha, the gate of the nations is broken,

It is open to me; I shall be full! she is laid waste!”

3 Therefore thus saith Jehovah:

“Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and I will bring against thee

Many nations, as the sea brings up its waves,

4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers,

And I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock;

5 She shall be a place in which to spread nets in the midst of the sea,

For I have spoken, is the oracle of Jehovah.

6 Her daughters which are on the mainland shall be slain by the sword,

And they shall know that I am Jehovah.”

7 For thus saith Jehovah: “Behold, I am about to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the king of kings, from the north with horses and chariots and horsemen and a host of many peoples. 8 Thy daughters on the mainland he will slay with the sword, and he will build a tower against thee, and raise up a mound against thee, and raise up shields against thee; 9 and he will direct the shock of his battering rams against thy walls, and hew down thy towers with his axes. 10 Because of the vast number of his horses, their dust shall cover thee; at the sound of horsemen, and wheels, and char- iots thy walls shall shake, when he enters thy gates as one enters the city that is taken by storm. 11 With the hoofs of horses he will trample all thy streets, he will slay thy people with the sword and thy strong pillars shall go down to the ground. 12 They will despoil thee of thy riches and take thy mer- chandise as booty, break down thy walls, and tear down thy pleasant houses; and thy stones and thy timber and thy dust they will cast in the midst of the waters. 13 And I will still the sound of thy songs, the music of thy harps shall be heard no more. ‘I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place in which to spread nets; thou shalt never again be rebuilt, for I, Jehovah, have spoken,” is the oracle of Jehovah.

20 This word of Jehovah came to me, 21 Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against her 22 and say, “Thus saith Jehovah, "Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon, and I will show forth my glory in thy midst, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah, when I execute judgment upon thee, and show forth my sanctity within thee. 23 And into thee I will send pestilence, and into thy streets blood, and the slain shall fall in thy midst, by the sword round about within thee, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. 24 Of all the malignant neighbors* of the house of Israel, none shall any longer be to them an irritating briar or a piercing thorn, and they shall know that I am Jehovah.’”

25 Thus saith Jehovah, “When I gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among which they are scattered, and show forth my sanctity through them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in the land which I gave to their father Jacob; 26 and they shall dwell therein securely, and build their houses and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell securely, when I execute judgment upon all their neighbors, who treat them despitefully, and they shall know that I am Jehovah their God.