A Message Concerning Ammon

• 49 Concerning the Ammonites:[fn] Thus says Yahweh, “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 [fn] look, days are coming,”[fn] Yahweh, “and I will sound against Rabbah, the[fn]
  • 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  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 your valleys? Your valleys[fn] are ebbing.
• O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures,
  • who said, ‘Who will come against me?’
• 5 am going to bring dread on you,”[fn] Lord Yahweh of hosts,
  • “from all your surrounding neighbors.
• And you will be scattered,
  • each one[fn]
• and there is no one who gathers the fugitives.[fn]
  • 6 [fn] I will restore the fortunes[fn] of the [fn] [fn] Yahweh.