8 “I heard the country of Moab insult my people.The country of Ammon threatened to take their land.”
9 So the Lord of heaven’s armies, the God of Israel, says,“As surely as I live,Moab will be destroyed like Sodom.Ammon will be destroyed like Gomorrah.Their land will be covered with weeds and salt.It will be destroyed forever.Those of my people who are left alive will take whatever they want from them.Those who are left from my nation will take their land.”
10 This is what Moab and Ammon get for being proud.This will happen because they insulted and made fun of the people of the Lord of heaven’s armies.
11 Those people will be afraid of the Lord.He will destroy all the gods of the earth.Then those people in faraway placeswill worship the Lord in their own countries.
12 “You Cushites alsowill be killed by my sword.”
13 Then the Lord will turn against the northand punish Assyria.He will destroy Nineveh.It will be dry like a desert.
14 Sheep and goats will lie down there.Wild animals will live there.The owls and crows will siton the stone pillars that are left standing.Their calls will be heard through the windows.Trash will be in the doorways.The wooden boards of the buildings will be gone.