1   To the children of Ammon. Thus saith our Lord: Why, ^note hath Israel no children? or hath he not an heire? Why then hath ^note Melchom by inheritance possessed Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities?

2   Therefore behold the daies come saith our Lord: and I wil make the noise of battel to be heard vpon Rabbath the children of Ammon, and it shal be destroyed into an heape, and her daughters shal be burnt with fire, and Israel shal possesse his possessoures, saith our Lord.

3   Howle Hesebon, because Hai is wasted. Crie ye daughters of Rabbath, gird your selues with clothes of heare: mourne and goe about by the hedges: because Melchom shal be led into transmigration, his priests, and his princes together.

4   What gloriest thou in the valleis? thy valley hath flowed away ô delicate daughter, which didst trust in thy treasures, and saidst: Who shal come to me?

5   Behold I wil bring terrour vpon thee, saith our Lord the God of hostes, from al that are round about thee: and you shal be dispersed euerie one from an others sight, neither shal there be anie to gather together them that flee.

6   And after these thinges I wil make the captiues of the children of Ammon to returne, saith our Lord.

7   To Idumaea. Thus saith the Lord of hostes: ^note Why is wisedom no more in Theman? Counsel is perished from the children: their wisedom is become vnprofitable.

8   Flee and turne your backes, goe downe into the gulfe ye in habitantes of Dedan: because I haue brought the perdition of Esau vpon him, the time of his visitation.

9   If the grape gatherers had come vpon thee, they had not left a cluster: if theeues in the night, they had taken that should suffice them.

10   But I haue discouered Esau, I haue reuealed his secrets, and he can not be concealed: his seede is wasted, and his bretheren, and his neighbours, and he shal not be.

11   Leaue thy pupilles: I wil make them liue: and thy widowes shal hope in me.

12   For thus saith our Lord: Behold they whose iudgement was not to drinke the cuppe, drinking shal drinke: and shalt thou be left as innocent? thou shalt not be innocent, but drinking thou shalt drinke.

13   Because I haue sworne by my self, saith our

Lord, that Bosra shal be into desolation, and into reproch, and into a desert, and into malediction: and al her cities shal be into euerlasting desolations.

14   I haue heard a bruite from our Lord, and a legate is sent to the Nations: Gather your selues together, and come against her, and let vs rise vp into battel.

15   For behold I haue made thee a litle one in the Gentiles, contemptible among men.

16   Thine arrogancie hath deceiued thee, and the pride of thy hart: which dwellest in the caues of the rocke, and endeuourest to apprehend the height of the hil. when thou shalt exalt thy nest as an eagle, thence wil I bring thee downe, saith our Lord.

17   And Idumea shal be desolate: euerie one that shal passe by it, shal be ^note astonied, and shal hisse vpon al the plagues thereof.

18   As Sodome is ouerthrowen and Gomorrha, and her neighbours saith our Lord: there shal not a man dwel there, and there shal no sonne of man inhabite it.

19   Behold as a lion he shal come vp from the pride of Iordan, to the strong beautifulnes: because I wil make him runne sodenly to her: and who shal be a chosen one whom I may appoint ouer her? for who is like to me? and who shal abide me? and who is this pastour that can resist my countenance?

20   Therefore heare ye the counsel of our Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his cogitations, which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: If the litle ones of the flocke shal not cast them downe, if they shal not destroy their habitation with them.

21   At the voice of their ruine the earth is moued: the crie of their voice is heard in the Red sea.

22   Behold he shal come vp as an eagle, and flie out: and he shal spred his winges ouer Bosra: and the hart of the strong of Idumea shal be in that day, as the hart of a woman in trauel

23    ^noteTo Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: because they haue heard a verie il bruite, they are trubled in the sea: for carefulnes it could not be quiet.

24   Damascus is vndone, she is turned into flight, trembling hath apprehended her: anguish and sorowes haue held her as a woman in trauel.

25   How haue they forsaken the laudable citie, the citie of ioy!

26   Therefore shal her yongmen fal in her streetes: and al the men of warre shal be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hostes.

27   And I wil kindle a fire in the wal of Damascus, and it shal deuour the walles of Benadad.

28    ^noteTo Cedar, and to the kingdoms of Asor, which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon hath strooken. Thus saith our Lord: Arise,

and goe ye vp to Cedar, and waste the children of the East.

29   They shal take their tabernacles, and their flockes: their cortines, and al their vessels, and their camels they shal take to them: and they shal cal vpon them feare round about.

30   Flee yee, get away spedely, sit in deepe pitts you that inhabite Asor, saith our Lord: for Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, & hath deuised deuises against you.

31   Arise, and goe vp to the nation that is quiet, and that dwelleth confidently, saith our Lord, they haue neither doores, nor barres: they dwel alone.

32   And their camels shal be into spoile, and the multitude of beasts for a praye: and I wil disperse them into euerie winde, which haue their heare powled: and from euerie confine of theirs, I wil bring destruction vpon them, saith our Lord.

33   And Asor shal be for an habitation of dragons, desolate for euer: there shal no man tarie there, nor sonne of man inhabite it.

34   The word of our Lord that was made to Ieremie the prophet against ^note Ælam, in he beginning of the kingdom of Sedecias king of Iuda, saying:

35   Thus saith the Lord of hostes: Behold I wil breake the bow of Ælam, & their chife strength.

36   And I wil bring vpon Ælam the foure windes from the foure costes of heauen: and I wil scatter them into al these windes: & there shal not be a nation, to which the fugitiues of Aelam shal not come.

37   And I wil make Aelam to feare before his enemies, and in the sight of them that seeke their life: and I wil bring euil vpon them, the wrath of my furie, saith our Lord: and I wil send the sword after them, til I consume them.

38   And I wil set my throne in Aelam, and destroy kinges and princes from thence, saith our Lord.

39    ^noteBut in the last daies I wil cause the captiues of Aelam to returne, saith our Lord.

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