I will destroy you so that you will be without inhabitant,
6 and you will become shepherds cots and folds for flocks. ***
7 In the house of Ashkelon will they lie down at evening by the sea will they feed.
8 I have heard the taunts of Moab,
and the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people,
and spoken boastfully concerning their border.
9 Therefore as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Moab will be like Sodom,
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
a breeding-place of nettles, and saltpits,
and a desolation, forever;
the residue of my people will plunder them,
and the remnant of my nation will inherit them.
10 This will they have for their pride,
because they have taunted and spoken boastfully
against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will terrify them;
he will reduce all the gods of the earth;
then all the peoples of the nations will worship him,
each in their own land.
12 You, also, Ethiopians,
slain by his sword are you!
13 And I will stretch out my hand
against the north and destroy Assyria;
And I will make Nineveh a desolation,
dry as the wilderness,
14 And herds will lie down in her,
amidst every beast of the earth,
Both desert owl and screech owl will lodge in its capitals.
The owl will hoot in the window; the raven on the doorstep,
for the city is destroyed.
15 This is the exultant city which sat secure. She who said to herself, I am and there is none else! How has she become a desolation! A lair of beasts! Every passerby hisses at her, shakes his hand.