² Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.

⁵ And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

⁶ And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.

⁴ But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.

³³ And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

³⁶ From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:

³⁴ And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer;

¹⁹ O daughter of Aroer, take your station by the way, on the watch: questioning him who is in flight, and her who has got away safe, say, What has been done?

²³ And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

²⁴ Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.

²⁵ And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

²¹ And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;

¹⁷ Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

¹⁶ Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land by Medeba;

¹² And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.