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Judgement on Ammon

49 (A)Concerning the Ammonites.

Thus says the Lord:

“Has Israel no sons?
    Has he no heir?
Why then has (B)Milcom (C)dispossessed Gad,
    and his people settled in its cities?
Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
    declares the Lord,
when I will cause (D)the battle cry to be heard
    against (E)Rabbah of the Ammonites;
it shall become a desolate (F)mound,
    and its villages shall be burned with fire;
then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,
    says the Lord.

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“I have heard (A)the taunts of Moab
    and (B)the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
    and made boasts (C)against their territory.
Therefore, (D)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become (E)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites (F)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste for ever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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