A reading from the book of Jeremiah.

Concerning the Ammonites, thus says the Lord, has Israel no sons, has he no heir?

Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad and his people settled in its cities?

Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will cause the battle cry

to be heard against Rabah of the Ammonites.

It shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire.

Then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the Lord.

Well, O Heshbon, for AI is laid waste.

Cry out, O daughters of Rabah, put on sackloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges,

for Milcom shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.

Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasure, saying,

Who will come against me?

Behold, I will bring terror upon you, declares the Lord God of hosts, from all who are around

you, and you shall be driven

out, every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives. But afterward, I will restore

the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the Lord. Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord of hosts,

is wisdom no more in Teeman, his counsel perished from the prudent,

has their wisdom vanished, flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Deiden,

for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him, if grape-gatherers

came to you, would they not leave gleanings, if thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for

themselves? But I have stripped Esau bear. I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not

able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no

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