They will attack<n id="1" /> you with weapons,<n id="2" /> chariots, wagons, and with a huge army;<n id="3" /> they will array themselves against you on every side with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I will assign them the task of judgment;<n id="4" /> they will punish you according to their laws.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look here,<n id="1" /> I am about to deliver you over to<n id="2" /> those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon<n id="1" /> a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

I will hand it over,<n id="1" /> along with the Ammonites,<n id="2" /> to the tribes<n id="3" /> of the east, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience<n id="1" /> my vengeance, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes.<n id="1" /> Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>, when I exact my vengeance upon them.&#8217;&#8221;p>

He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will build a siege wall against you, erect a siege ramp against you, and raise a great shield against you.

I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again,<n id="1" /> for I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Men of Persia, Lud,<n id="1" /> and Put were in your army, men of war.p> <p class="poetry">They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.p>

Judah and the land of Israel were your clients; they traded wheat from Minnith,<n id="1" /> millet, honey, olive oil, and balm for your merchandise.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

<p class="poetry">I placed you there with an anointed<n id="1" /> guardian<n id="2" /> cherub;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you were on the holy mountain of God;p> <p class="poetry">you walked about amidst fiery stones.p>

<p class="poetry">Your heart was proud because of your beauty;p> <p class="poetry">you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor.p> <p class="poetry">I threw you down to the ground;p> <p class="poetry">I placed you before kings, that they might see you.p>

<p class="poetry">By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade,p> <p class="poetry">you desecrated your sanctuaries.p> <p class="poetry">So I drew fire out from within you;p> <p class="poetry">it consumed you,p> <p class="poetry">and I turned you to ashes on the earthp> <p class="poetry">before the eyes of all who saw you.p>

<p class="poetry">I will put hooks in your jawsp> <p class="poetry">and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales.p> <p class="poetry">I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways,p> <p class="poetry">and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.p>

I am against<n id="1" /> you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol<n id="2" /> to Syene,<n id="3" /> as far as the border with Ethiopia.

I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre<n id="1" />, because they did it for me, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

On that day I will make Israel powerful,<n id="1" /> and I will give you the right to be heard<n id="2" /> among them. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">I will dry up the waterwaysp> <p class="poetry">and hand the land over to<n id="1" /> evil men.p> <p class="poetry">I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, have spoken!p>

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon.<n id="1" />