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Why do you unfaithful people boast? Your strength is failing. Why do you trust in your power and say that no one would dare attack you? I will bring terror on you from every side. You will all run away. Each one will run for his life, and there will be no one to bring your troops together again.

“But later on I will make Ammon prosperous again. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

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Why do you boast of your valleys,
    boast of your valleys so fruitful?
Unfaithful Daughter Ammon,(A)
    you trust in your riches(B) and say,
    ‘Who will attack me?’(C)
I will bring terror on you
    from all those around you,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
“Every one of you will be driven away,
    and no one will gather the fugitives.(D)

“Yet afterward, I will restore(E) the fortunes of the Ammonites,”
declares the Lord.

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