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Concerning Moab, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo, for it is devastated. It is ashamed, Kiriathaim is captured. Misgab is ashamed, and it is filled with terror.

Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering," declares the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name.

Look, I am going to bring dread on you," declares Lord Yahweh of hosts, "from all your surrounding neighbors. And you will be scattered, each one before it, and there is no one who gathers the fugitives.

Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel become lost from those who understand? Is their wisdom rotting?

Therefore her young men will fall in her public squares, and all the soldiers will perish in that day," declares Yahweh of hosts.

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Look, I am going to break the bow of Elam, the first and best of their might.

Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.

Yahweh has opened his armory, and he has brought out the weapons of his wrath, for it is a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

"Look, I am against you, O arrogant one," declares Lord Yahweh of hosts, "for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah likewise, for all their captors have seized them, they refuse to let them go free.

Their redeemer is strong, his name is Yahweh of hosts. Surely he will plead their case, in order to make peace for the earth, but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

For neither Israel nor Judah is a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."

Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, "Surely I will fill you with troops like the creeping locusts, and they will sing over you a war cry."

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of everything, and the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of hosts is his name.

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden down, just a little while and the time of the harvest will come for her."

"And I will make drunk her officials, and her wise men, her governors, and her officials, and her warriors, and they will sleep an everlasting sleep, and they will not wake up," declares the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly demolished, and her high gates will burn with fire, and the peoples will labor for nothing, and the nations for fire, and they will grow weary."

And thus will do the Lord Yahweh of hosts, who touches the earth and it melts, and all of those living in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile and it sinks down like the Nile of Egypt,

But they will sit, each under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.

"Look! I am against you!" declares Yahweh of hosts. "I will burn her chariots with fire; the sword will devour fierce lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth; the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."