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Therefore[a] look, days are coming,” declares[b] Yahweh,
“and I will sound against Rabbah, the Ammonites,[c]
    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.
“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated.
    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.
Why do you boast in your valleys?
    Your valleys[d] are ebbing.
O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures,
    who said, ‘Who will come against me?’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:2 Literally “To thus”
  2. Jeremiah 49:2 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Jeremiah 49:2 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  4. Jeremiah 49:4 Hebrew “valley”