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Why do you boast in your strength?
    Your strength is ebbing,
O faithless daughter.
    You trusted in your treasures, saying,
    ‘Who will attack me?’
I am going to bring terror upon you,
    says the Lord God of hosts,
    from all your neighbours,
and you will be scattered, each headlong,
    with no one to gather the fugitives.

But afterwards I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, says the Lord.

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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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