¹⁵ Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.

⁴⁴ And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places.

¹ So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.

³⁵ Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;

¹⁵ The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

⁷ And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam

¹⁷ The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.

¹⁸ And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹ And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

²⁰ In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.

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

²² And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

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.

³ And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

⁵ Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

⁶ I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

¹ About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?