8 I have heard the reproaches of Moab

and the scorning of the ⌊Ammonites⌋,b

with which they have taunted my nation

and made boasts against their territory.

9 “Therefore, as I live”—a declaration of Yahweh of hosts,

the God of Israel—

“Moab shall be as Sodom,

and the ⌊Ammonites⌋c like Gomorrah,

a place of weeds and salt pits

and a desolation forever.

The remnant of my people shall plunder them,

and the remainder of my nation shall possess them.”

10 This shall be for them in place of their pride

because they mocked and boasted

against the people of Yahweh of hosts.

11 Yahweh will be awesome against them,

for he will destroy all the gods of the earth

and all the landsd of the nations;

each in its place will bow down to him.

12 You also, O Cushites,

they shall be killed by my sword.

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north,

and he will destroy Assyria

and will make Nineveh a desolation,

a dry wasteland like the desert.

14 Herds shall lie down in her midst,

every wild animal of a nation;

even the desert owl and the screech owl

shall lodge on her capitals.

A voice shall hoot in the window;

rubblee on the threshold;

for the cedar is laid bare.

15 This is the city of rejoicing

that lived securely;

the one saying in her heart,

“⌊I am, and there is none besides me⌋.”f

How she has become a desolation,

a lair for wild animals!

Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.