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AMOS 1:3–2:3 ©

This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Judgement of Yisrael’s neighbours

Amos 1:3—2:3

Syria

3This is what Yahweh says:

Even if Damascus was three or four sins below the threshold,

I wouldn’t turn away their punishment,

for the cruel things they did to the people of Gilead.[ref]

4I’ll send a fire into King Hazael’s house,

and it will devour King Ben-Hadad’s fortresses.

5I’ll smash the gate bars of Damascus

and eliminate the ruler of the Aven Valley,

and also the leader of Beth-Eden.

The people of Aram will go in captivity to Kir,”

says Yahweh.

Philistia

6This is what Yahweh says:

Even if Azzah (Gaza) was three or four sins below the threshold,

I wouldn’t turn away their punishment,

because they carried a whole people group away as captives,

to hand them over to Edom.[ref] 7I’ll send fire onto Azzah’s walls,

and it’ll devour her fortresses. 8I will cut off those from Ashdod

and the ruler of Ashkelon.

I’ll cause problems for Ekron,

and the rest of the Philistines will die,”

says Yahweh the master.

Tsor

9This is what Yahweh says:

Even if Tsor (Tyre) was three or four sins below the threshold,

I wouldn’t turn away their punishment,

because they handed a whole people group over to Edom,

and they didn’t take any notice of their brotherhood agreement.[ref]

10I’ll send fire onto Tsor’s walls,

and it’ll devour her fortresses.”

Edom

11This is what Yahweh says,

Even if Edom was three or four sins below the threshold,

I wouldn’t turn away their punishment,

because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity.

His anger raged continually,

and his rage lasted forever.[ref]

12I’ll send fire on Teyman,

and it’ll devour Botsrah’s fortresses.”

Ammon

13This is what Yahweh says,

Even if the Ammonites were three or four sins below the threshold,

I wouldn’t turn away their punishment,

because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead,

in order to grab territory.[ref]

14I’ll light a fire in Rabah’s walls,

and it’ll devour its fortresses,

with a shout in the day of battle,

with a storm in the day of the whirlwind.

15Their king will go into captivity along with his officials,”

says Yahweh.

Moab

2This is what Yahweh says:

Even if Moab was three or four sins below the threshold,

I wouldn’t turn away its punishment,

because he completely burnt up the bones of Edom’s king.[ref]

2I’ll send fire on Moab,

and it will devour Keriot’s fortresses.

Moab will die in an uproar—

with shouting and the sound of the horn. 3I’ll wipe out her judge,

and I’ll kill all the leaders along with him,”

says Yahweh.


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Isa 17:1-3:

17[ref] 2 3


17:1-3: Jer 49:23-27; Amos 1:3-5; Zech 9:1.

Jer 49:23-27:

23[ref] 24 25 26 27


49:23-27: Isa 17:1-3; Amos 1:3-5; Zech 9:1.

Zech 9:1:

9This is a declaration of Yahweh’s message concerning the Syrian Hadrak region and focussing on Damascus city, because the eyes of all humanity, including all of Israel’s tribes, are toward Yahweh.[ref]


9:1: Isa 17:1-3; Jer 49:23-27; Amos 1:3-5.

Isa 14:29-31:

29[ref] 30

31


14:29-31: Jer 47:1-7; Eze 25:15-17; Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:6-8; Zeph 2:4-7; Zech 9:5-7.

Jer 47:1-7:

47[ref] 2

3

4

5

6

7


47:1-7: Isa 14:29-31; Eze 25:15-17; Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:6-8; Zeph 2:4-7; Zech 9:5-7.

Eze 25:15-17:

15The master Yahweh says this, ‘The Philistines have chosen hateful vengeance and have put much effort into trying to destroy Yehudah,[ref] 16So this is what the master Yahweh says: Listen, I’ll take action against the Philistines, and I’ll cut off the Kerethites and destroy the remnant along the coast. 17I’ll take severe vengeance against them with furious acts to punish them—they’ll know that I am Yahweh, when I take my vengeance on them.’ ”


25:15-17: Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:6-8; Jdg 13:1; 1Sam 4:1.

Yoel 3:4-8:

4Tyre, Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia, what are you to me?

Are you trying to get even with me?

If you are, I’ll very quickly deflect your actions back on yourselves,[ref]

5because you took my gold and silver,

and you took my precious treasures into your temples.

6Then you sold the people of Yehudah and Yerushalem to the Greeks,

so that they’d be taken far away from their homeland.

7Listen, I’ll stir them up there in the place where you sold them,

and I’ll deflect your behaviour back on yourselves,

8because I’ll sell your sons and daughters to the people of Yehudah,

and they’ll sell them to the Sabeans—to a faraway nation.”

Yes, Yahweh has spoken.


3:4-8: Isa 23:1-18; Eze 26:1–28:26; Amos 1:9-10; Zech 9:1-4; Mat 11:21-22; Luk 10:13-14.

Zeph 2:4-7:

4Because Azzah (Gaza) will become abandoned,

and Ashkelon will become a ruin.

The people of Ashdod will be driven out by noon,

and Ekron will be overthrown.[ref]

5The inhabitants of the coastal region are to be pitied,

the nation of the Kerethites.

Yahweh’s decision is against you all,

Canaan, land of the Philistines.

I’ll destroy you until no one remains.

6The coastal region will become pastures of meadows for shepherds

and pens for flocks.

7The remaining survivors from Yehudah will inhabit that region.

They will shepherd their flocks on that land.

They’ll lie down in their houses in Ashkelon in the evening,

because their God Yahweh will visit them, and he’ll restore their fortune.


2:4-7: Isa 14:29-31; Jer 47:1-7; Eze 25:15-17; Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:6-8; Zech 9:5-7.

Zech 9:5-7:

5Ashkelon city will see and be afraid. Azzah city (Gaza) will also squirm in pain. Ekron city will have her hopes dashed. Azzah’s king will die, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.[ref] 6Strangers will move into Ashdod, and I’ll end the Philistines’ pride. 7I will remove the meat with blood still in it from their mouths and their foods offered to idols from between their teeth. Then they’ll become a remnant for our God like a clan in Yehudah, and Ekron will end up like the Yebusites did.


9:5-7: Isa 14:29-31; Jer 47:1-7; Eze 25:15-17; Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:6-8; Zeph 2:4-7.

Isa 23:1-18:

23[ref]

2 3

4

5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12

13

14

15

16

17 18


23:1-18: Eze 26:1–28:19; Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:9-10; Zech 9:1-4; Mat 11:21-22; Luk 10:13-14.

Eze 26:1–28:19:

26At the beginning of the month in the eleventh year since King Yoyakin (Jehoiachin) had been taken captive, Yahweh gave me a message:[ref] 2“Humanity’s child, because Tsor (Tyre) has said against Yerushalem, ‘Nice one! Yerushalem’s gates are broken. It’s going my way—I can take advantage because it’s been destroyed.’

3Therefore the master Yahweh says this: ‘Listen, I’m opposed to you, Tsor, and I’ll raise up many nations against you just like the sea raises its waves. 4They’ll destroy Tsor’s walls and tear down its towers, then I’ll sweep its dust away and make it like a bare rock. 5It’ll become a place in the middle of the sea for people to spread their nets out to dry them, since I’ve declared it and it’ll become plunder for the nations. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration. 6Its young women who’re in the countryside will be slaughtered by the swords, and then they’ll know that I am Yahweh.’

7Yes, this is what Yahweh says: Listen, I’m bringing the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, king of kings from the north, against Tsor, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a large army. 8He’ll kill your daughters in the countryside. He’ll set up a siege program and build a ramp against your walls and raise up shields against you. 9He’ll use his battering rams to smash down your walls, and he’ll tear down your towers with his axes. 10They’ll have so many horses that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake with the noise of their horsemen, wagons, and chariots. When he rides through your gates, he’ll pick his way over the stones like men do when entering a city whose walls have been broken down. 11The hooves of his horses will trample all of your streets. He’ll slaughter your people with the sword and your mighty stone pillars will be knocked to the ground. 12They’ll tear down your walls and destroy your nice homes—plundering your riches and looting your merchandise. Then they’ll throw your building stones, wood, and rubble into the ocean. 13I’ll stop the sound of your songs and the music from your harps won’t be heard anymore. 14I’ll make you back into a bare rock—you’ll become a place where nets are spread out to dry. You’ll never be built again, because I, master Yahweh have spoken. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.

15The master Yahweh says this to Tsor, ‘Won’t the islands shake with the sound of your downfall, and with the groans of the wounded when the terrible slaughter is happening in you? 16Then all the leaders of the coastal kingdoms will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and take off their embroidered clothes. Instead, they’ll clothe themselves with trembling, they’ll sit on the ground and tremble every moment, and they’ll be appalled because of you. 17Then they’ll sing this song of mourning for you: and say to you,

How you, who were inhabited by sailors, have been destroyed.

The famous city that was so strong, it’s now gone from the sea.

The ones living in her once spread a terror about themselves upon everyone who lived nearby.

18Now the coastal kingdoms tremble on the day of your downfall.

The islands in the sea are terrified by your passing.’

19Yes, the master Yahweh says this: When I make you a desolate city, like the other cities that are not inhabited, when I raise up the deeps against you, and when the great waters cover you, 20then I’ll take you down to the pit that people of ancient times went down to, because I’ll make you live in the lowest realms of the earth as in ruins of ancient times. Because of that, you won’t come back and be splendid in the land of the living. 21I’ll send disaster onto you, and you won’t exist anymore. Then people will look for you, but you’ll never be found again. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.”[ref]

27Then Yahweh gave me another message: 2“Now you, humanity’s child, begin a funeral song about Tsor (Tyre), 3and tell Tsor (which is on a coastal island—merchants to peoples on many other islands) that the master Yahweh says this to you:

Tsor, you’ve said, ‘My beauty has reached perfection.’

4Your borders are surrounded by the ocean.

Your builders have perfected your beauty.[fn]

5They made all your planks with cypress from Mt. Hermon (Senir).

They got a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

6They made your oars from the oak trees in Bashan.

They made your decks out of cypress wood from Cyprus, and overlaid them with ivory.

7Your sails were made from colourful linen from Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) that served as your banner.

The colors of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah are used for the awning on your boat.

8Those who were living in Tsidon and Arvad were your rowers.

The wise men of Tsor were within you—they were your pilots.

9Experienced craftsmen from Geval sealed your seams.

All the ships and their sailors among you were carrying your merchandise for trade.

10Warriors from Persia, Lydia, and Libya were in your army.

They hung their shields and helmets within you.

They displayed your splendour.

11The men of Arvad and Helek in your army were on your walls surrounding you,

and the people from Gammad were in your towers.

They hung up their shields on your walls all around you.

They completed your beauty.

12Tarshish was a trading partner with you because of your abundant wealth of goods. They traded silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares. 13Yavan, Tubal, and Meshech traded slaves as well as bronze items for your merchandise. 14Beyt-Togarmah provided horses, stallions, and mules in exchange for your products. 15The men of Dedan (Rhodes Island) were your traders on many coasts. You sent the merchandise and they sent back ivory tusks and ebony wood as payment. 16Syria (Heb. Aram) was a dealer in your many productsthey provided emeralds, purple dye, coloured cloth, fine fabric, pearls, and rubies for your merchandise. 17Yehudah and Yisrael were trading with you. They provided wheat from Minnit, cakes, honey, oil, and balsam for your merchandise. 18Damascus was a trader of all your products, of all your enormous wealth, and of the wine from Helbon and the wool from Zahar.[fn] 19Dan and Yavan from Uzal provided you with merchandise of wrought iron, cinnamon, and fragrant calamus seeds which became merchandise for you. 20Dedan was your dealer in woven saddle blankets. 21Arabia and all the leaders of Kedar were traders with you—they provided you with lambs, rams and goats. 22Traders from Sheba and Ramah came to sell you the best of every spice and all kinds of precious gems—they traded gold for your goods. 23Haran, Kanneh, and Eden were traders with you, along with Sheba, Ashur, and Kilmad. 24Those were your traders in fancy robes of violet cloths with woven colours, and in blankets of multicoloured, embroidered, and well-woven cloth in your marketplaces. 25The ships of Tarshish were the transporters of your merchandise.

So you were filled up—heavily laden with cargo there in the heart of the seas.

26Your rowers have brought you into vast seas.

The east wind has wrecked you in the middle of them.

27Your wealth, merchandise, and trade goods,

your sailors, pilots, and ship-builders,

your traders of merchandise and all the men of war who are in you, and all your crew—

they will sink into the depths of the sea at the time of your destruction.

28The surroundings will shake

when they hear your pilot’s cry of distress.


29All the oarsmen will come down off their ships.

Mariners and all the pilots on the sea will stand on the land,

30then they’ll raise their voices towards you and will wail bitterly.

They’ll throw dust up onto their heads. They’ll roll around to get covered in ashes.

31They’ll shave their heads bald for you and dress in rough sackcloth,[fn]

and they’ll weep bitterly over you and they will cry out with loud moans.

32They will wail loudly for you and sing funeral songs about you.

Who is like the city of Tsor, which has now been brought to silence in the middle of the sea?

33When your merchandise went ashore from the sea, it pleased many peoples.

You enriched kings across the world with your great wealth and merchandise.

34But when you were shattered by the seas, by deep waters,

your merchandise and all your crew sank.

35All the inhabitants of the coastal kingdoms were appalled at you,

and their kings shuddered in horror—their faces trembled.

36The merchants of the people hiss at you.

You’ve become a horror, and you won’t exist anymore.”

28Then Yahweh gave me another message: 2“Humanity’s child, tell Tsor’s ruler that the master Yahweh says this: Your heart is proud and you’ve said, “I’m a god. I’ll sit in the seat of gods in the vital centre of the oceans.” Even though you’re a man and not a god, you tell yourself that you’re a god.

3Listen you king of Tsor, are you wiser than Daniyel was? Are there any secrets that you don’t already know? 4You’ve used your wisdom and skill to make yourself wealthy, and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries. 5By great wisdom and by your trading, you’ve multiplied your wealth, but now you’ve become arrogant because of your wealth.

6Therefore, the master Yahweh says this: Because you’ve convinced yourself that you’re invincible like a god, 7then I’ll bring foreigners against you—terrifying warriors from other nations. They’ll bring their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they’ll defile your splendour. 8They’ll send you down to the pit, and you’ll die violently like those who die at sea. 9Will you really say, “I’m a god” to the face of one who’s about to kill you? You’re a man and not God, and you’ll be at the mercy of the one who runs you through. 10You’ll die like an ungodly person killed by foreigners, because I’ve declared it. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.’ ”

11Then Yahweh gave me another message: 12“Humanity’s child, sing out a mourning song for the king of Tsor (Tyre) and tell him that the master Yahweh says this:

You were the model of perfection,

full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

13You were in Eden—God’s garden.

Every precious stone covered you:

ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite,

onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl.

Your settings and mountings were made from gold.

They were prepared on the very day that you were created.

14I placed you on God’s sacred mountain of God

like the winged creatures that I appointed to guard mankind.

You were among the fiery stones where you walked around.

15You had integrity in your ways from the day you were created

until injustice was found within you.

16Through your great trade you were filled with violence, and so you sinned.

Then I threw you out of God’s mountain, like someone who was defiled,

and I destroyed you, guardian winged creature,

and drove you from among the fiery stones.

17Your heart was arrogant due to your beauty.

You ruined your wisdom because of your splendour.

I threw you down to the earth.

I put you in front of kings so they can see you.

18Because of all your disobedience and your dishonest trade,

you’ve defiled your sacred places,

so I’ve made fire come out from you to consume you.

I’ll turn you into ashes on the earth

in the sight of everyone who looks at you.

19Everyone who knew you among the peoples

will shudder to look at you now

they will be horrified, and you won’t exist any longer.’ ”


27:4 Here, the island city of Tyre is imagined as a ship in the ocean.

27:18 Possibly, Zahar (used only once in the Hebrew scriptures) could refer to the white colour of the wool.

27:30 All of these (dust, ashes, shaving, sackcloth) are traditional signs of mourning.


26:1–28:19: Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:9-10.

26:21: Rev 18:21.

Zech 9:1-4:

9This is a declaration of Yahweh’s message concerning the Syrian Hadrak region and focussing on Damascus city, because the eyes of all humanity, including all of Israel’s tribes, are toward Yahweh.[ref] 2It’s also about the Hamat region which borders on Tsor (Tyre) and Tsidon (Sidon) which is very wise. 3Tsor has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and refined gold like mud in the streets. 4Listen, my master will dispossess her and throw her wealth into the sea, and she’ll be consumed by fire.


9:1: Isa 17:1-3; Jer 49:23-27; Amos 1:3-5.

Mat 11:21-22:

21[ref]Chorazin you’re doomed. Bethsaida you’re doomed. Because if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Tsidon, they would have shown their turning from their sins by wearing coarse cloth and showering themselves with ashes. 22However, I’m telling you all that it will be more tolerable for the people of Tyre and Tsidon on judgement day than it will be for you.


11:21: Isa 23:1-18; Eze 26:1–28:26; Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:9-10; Zech 9:2-4.

Luk 10:13-14:

13[ref]You won’t end well, Korazin. And you won’t end well, Bethsaida. Because if the miracles that were done in your places had been done in Tyre and Tsidon, they would have turned around from disobeying God and shown their humility long ago 14hence it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Tsidon on judgement day than it will be for you all.


10:13: Isa 23:1-18; Eze 26:1–28:26; Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:9-10; Zech 9:2-4.

Isa 34:5-17:

5[ref] 6 7 8

9 10[ref] 11 12 13 14 15

16 17


34:5-17: Isa 63:1-6; Jer 49:7-22; Eze 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Amos 1:11-12; Oba 1-14; Mal 1:2-5.

34:10: Rev 14:11; 19:3.

63:1-6:

63[ref]


2


3[ref]

4

5[ref]

6


63:1-6: Isa 34:5-17; Jer 49:7-22; Eze 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Amos 1:11-12; Oba 1-14; Mal 1:2-5.

63:3: a Rev 14:20; 19:15; b Rev 19:13.

63:5: Isa 59:16.

Jer 49:7-22:

7[ref] 8 9 10 11

12 13

14 15 16

17 18[ref] 19 20 21 22


49:7-22: Isa 34:5-17; 63:1-6; Eze 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Amos 1:11-12; Oba 1-14; Mic 1:2-5.

49:18: Gen 19:24-25.

Eze 25:12-14:

12The master Yahweh also says, ‘Edom has taken vengeance against the kingdom of Yehudah and has done wrong by doing that.[ref] 13Therefore, the master Yahweh says: I’ll strike Edom with my hand and destroy every person and animal there. I’ll make it a ruined, abandoned place, from Teman all the way to Dedan—they’ll fall by the sword. 14I’ll use my people Israel to place my vengeance on Edom, and they’ll apply my anger and fury to Edom so they’ll know my vengeance. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.’


25:12-14: Gen 25:24-34; 36:39; Jer 49:7-22; Eze 35:1-15; Jer 49:7-22; Oba 1-14; Mal 1:2-5.

35:1-15:

35[ref] 2 3 4

5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13

14 15


35:1-15: Isa 34:5-17; 63:1-6; Jer 49:7-22; Eze 25:12-14; Amos 1:11-12; Oba 1-14; Mal 1:2-5.

Oba 1-14:

1This is the vision of Obadiah given by the master Yahweh concerning the Edom region:

We have heard from Yahweh and a messenger has been sent to the nations, telling them:

Get everything ready then go into battle against Edom.

2And Yahweh says to Edom:

Listen,

I will make you into an insignificant nation.

You’ll become utterly despised.

3Your inner pride has deceived you,

you who live on the rocky cliffs,

with your homes up there so high.

You say to yourselves that

no one can bring you down to the ground.

4If you go up high like an eagle,

even if your nest was up between the stars,

Yahweh declares that his command can bring you down from there.


5If it was thieves who came to destroy you in the night,

(and yes, you’re going to be destroyed)

they would only steal what they wanted.

Or if it was grape-pickers who came to you,

at least they’d leave behind the smaller grapes.

6How Esau’s descendants will be looted.

Their hidden treasures will be found and taken.

7Those who have treaties with you will force you to the border.

Those who talk about peace will deceive you.

Those who eat meals with you will set a trap for you.

You have no idea what’s about to hit you.


8Yahweh will make a declaration on that day.

The wise people of Edom will be destroyed.

Understanding will disappear from Esau’s hill.

9And you the city of Teyman, your warriors will be shattered,

so that everyone from Esau’s hill country will be slaughtered.

10Because of your violence against your brother Yacob’s descendants,

shame will overcome you,

and you’ll be destroyed forever.

11You just stood and watched on that day when strangers carried away their wealth.

When foreigners entered their gates and took possession of Yerushalem, you wished it was you doing that.

12You shouldn’t have gloated over your cousins on the day of their misfortune.

And you shouldn’t have celebrated about the destruction of the people of Yehudah.

You shouldn’t have bragged in their time of distress.

13You shouldn’t have gone into their city at the time of their calamity.

You shouldn’t have gloated—yes, you—over their misery in their time of disaster.

And you women shouldn’t have grabbed their wealth on the day of their catastrophe.

14You shouldn’t have stood at the crossroads to kill those trying to escape,[ref]

And you shouldn’t have handed-over any survivors that you’d captured in their time of trouble.


1:1-14: Isa 34:5-17; 63:1-6; Jer 49:7-22; Eze 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Amos 1:11-12; Mal 1:2-5.

Mal 1:2-5:

2“I have loved you all,” says Yahweh, but you say, “How have you shown your love for us?”

“Wasn’t Esaw Yacob’s brother?” declares Yahweh. “Yet I’ve loved Yacob[ref] 3and rejected Esaw. I’ve turned the hills where Esaw lived into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild jackals.”

4If Esaw’s descendants in Edom say, “We’ve been crushed, but we’ll return and rebuild what was destroyed,” then army-commander Yahweh will say, “They might build, but I will tear down. Others will call them ‘The country of wickedness’ and ‘The people who Yahweh is forever angry with.’

5Your own eyes will see it, and you’ll say, ‘Yahweh is great even outside Israel’s borders.’ ”


1:2-3: Rom 9:13.

Jer 49:1-6:

49[ref] 2 3 4 5 6


49:1-6: Eze 21:28-32; 25:1-7; Amos 1:13-15; Zeph 2:8-11.

Eze 21:28-32:

28So you, humanity’s child, prophesy and say, ‘The master Yahweh says this to the Ammonites concerning their coming disgrace: A sword, a sword is drawn. It’s sharpened for the slaughter in order to devour, so it will be like lightning.[ref] 29While prophets see empty visions for you and perform rituals to come up with lies for you, this sword will lie on the necks of the wicked who are about to be killed, whose day of punishment has come and whose time of disobedience is about to end.s1 Babylon’s end ???

30Return the sword to its sheath. I’ll judge you in the place of your creation. In the land of your origin 31I’ll pour my indignation out on you! I’ll fan the fire of my rage against you and hand you over to cruel men—craftsmen of destruction. 32You’ll become fuel for the fire. Your blood will be spilled right there in your own land. You won’t be remembered, because I, Yahweh have declared it.’ ”


21:28-32: Jer 49:1-6; Eze 25:1-7; Amos 1:3-15; Zeph 2:8-11; Gen 19:36-38; Jdg 3:12-13; 10:6-11.

25:1-7:

Yahweh’s judgement of nations

(25:1–32:32)

25Then Yahweh gave me another message:[ref] 2“Humanity’s child, keep looking towards the Ammonites and prophesy against them. 3Tell them to listen to this messages because this is what the master Yahweh says: Because you said, “Aha!” over my sanctuary when it was desecrated, and against the land of Yisrael when it was desolate, and against the kingdom of Yehudah when they went into exile, 4therefore, listen: I’m giving you to a people in the east as their possession. They’ll set up camp against you and set up their tents among you. They’ll eat your fruit vand drink your milk. 5I’ll make the Ammonite capital city, Rabbah,[fn] into a camel pasture and the people of Ammon into a resting place for flocks. Then you’ll all know that I am Yahweh.

6Because the master Yahweh says this: You clapped your hands and stamped your feet and celebrated with all the contempt within you against the Israeli nation, 7therefore, listen Ammon. I’ll strike you down and give you as plunder to the other nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from among the countries. I’ll destroy you, and you’ll know that I am Yahweh.’


25:5 Now the modern city of Amman (in Jordan) has been built on Rabbah’s ruins.


25:1-7: Jer 49:1-6; Eze 21:28-32; Amos 1:13-15; Zeph 2:8-11.

Zeph 2:8-11:


8I’ve heard Moav’s mocking

and the Ammonites’ insults.

They’ve insulted my people

and built up their forces against their border.[ref]

9Army commander Yahweh, Israel’s God, declares:

As certain as I’m alive,

Moab will become like Sodom,

and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,

overrun by nettles and salt-pits—in ruins forever.

The remnant of my people will plunder them,

and the remainder of my nation will take possession of them.[ref]

10That will be the fruit of their pride,

because they mocked and talked themselves up

against the people of army commander Yahweh.

11The people of Moab and Ammon will be very scared when Yahweh punishes them.

He’ll do that so powerfully that people will stop worshipping all other gods.

People in every nation will worship Yahweh instead—each person in their own country.


2:8-11: a Isa 15:1–16:14; 25:10-12; Jer 48:1-47; Eze 25:8-11; Amos 1:13-15; b Jer 49:1-6; Eze 21:28-32; 25:1-7; Amos 1:13-15.

2:9: Gen 19:24.

Isa 15:1–16:14:

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15:1–16:14: Isa 25:10-12; Jer 48:1-47; Eze 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11.

25:10-12:

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25:10-12: Isa 15:1–16:14; Jer 48:1-47; Eze 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11.

Jer 48:1-47:

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48:1-47: Isa 15:1–16:14; 25:10-12; Eze 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11.

Eze 25:8-11:

8The master Yahweh says this, ‘Because Moab and Seir say that the kingdom of Yehudah is just like every other nation,[ref] 9well listen, I’ll destroy the border cities protecting Moab, starting with the splendour of Beyt-Yeshimot, Baal-Meon, and Kiriataim. 10I’ll hand them over to the people of the east who’ve already been against the Ammonites—I’ll give them up as a possession so that the Ammonites won’t be remembered among the nations. 11Yes, I’ll perform judgments against Moab, then they’ll know that I am Yahweh.’


25:8-11: Gen 19:36-37; 25:10-12; Jer 48:1-47; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11.

Zeph 2:8-11:


8I’ve heard Moav’s mocking

and the Ammonites’ insults.

They’ve insulted my people

and built up their forces against their border.[ref]

9Army commander Yahweh, Israel’s God, declares:

As certain as I’m alive,

Moab will become like Sodom,

and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,

overrun by nettles and salt-pits—in ruins forever.

The remnant of my people will plunder them,

and the remainder of my nation will take possession of them.[ref]

10That will be the fruit of their pride,

because they mocked and talked themselves up

against the people of army commander Yahweh.

11The people of Moab and Ammon will be very scared when Yahweh punishes them.

He’ll do that so powerfully that people will stop worshipping all other gods.

People in every nation will worship Yahweh instead—each person in their own country.


2:8-11: a Isa 15:1–16:14; 25:10-12; Jer 48:1-47; Eze 25:8-11; Amos 1:13-15; b Jer 49:1-6; Eze 21:28-32; 25:1-7; Amos 1:13-15.

2:9: Gen 19:24.