Judgment on Israel's Neighbors
2 And he said:
1"The LORD roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
2the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the
3top of
4Carmel withers."
3
Thus says the LORD:
5"For three transgressions of
6Damascus, and for four,
7I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed
8Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
4
9So I will send a fire upon the house of
10Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of
11Ben-hadad.
5
I will
12break the gate-bar of
13Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of
14Aven, and him who holds the scepter from
15Beth-eden; and the people of
16Syria shall go into exile to
17Kir," says the LORD.
6
Thus says the LORD:
18"For three transgressions of
19Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because
20they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.
7
So I will send a fire upon the wall of
21Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.
8
I will cut off the inhabitants from
22Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish," says the Lord GOD.
9
Thus says the LORD:
23"For three transgressions of
24Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
10
So I will send a fire upon the wall of
25Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds."
11
Thus says the LORD:
26"For three transgressions of
27Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
28because he pursued his brother with the sword
29and cast off all pity,
30and his anger tore perpetually,
31and he kept his wrath forever.
12
So I will send a fire upon
32Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of
33Bozrah."
13
Thus says the LORD:
34"For three transgressions of the
35Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because
36they have ripped open pregnant women in
37Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
14
So I will kindle a fire in the wall of
38Rabbah,
39and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle,
40with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
15
and
41their king shall go into exile, he and his princes together," says the LORD.