I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.
Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare. This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.
and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
“Thus says the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir said, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,’
Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord God.’
So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”
For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
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