2 No more is there any praise of Moʹab.+ In Heshʹbon+ they have thought out against her a calamity: ‘Come, men, and let us cut her off from being a nation.’+

“You, too, O Madʹmen, should keep silent. After you there walks a sword.

2 “‘Therefore, look! there are days coming,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and I will cause the alarm signal of war+ to be heard even against Rabʹbah+ of the sons of Amʹmon; and she will certainly become a mound of a desolate waste,+ and her dependent towns*+ themselves will be set aflame in the very fire.’+

“‘And Israel will actually take possession of those in possession of him,’+ Jehovah has said.