A message about Ammon
Ammonite attacked Israel and got their land and towns.
"Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? You trust in your riches and say,' Who will attack me?' I will bring terror on you from all those around you" declares the Lord.
Afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites.
A Message about Edom.
The terror an the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle's, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.
A message about Damascus
Her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day, declares the Lord Almighty. I will set fire to the walls of Damascus;it will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.
A Message about Kedar an Hazor and Elam
Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, a desolate place forever. No one will live there; no man will dwell in it.
I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might. I will scatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives; I will bring disaster upon them even my fierce anger, declares the Lord.
Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam in days to come.
Why?
Ammon was an old enemy of Israel. Ammon is condemned for seizing Israelite land, but will later be restored.
The Assyrians took the city, Damascus in 732BC, in Isaiah's time. It suffered further in the centuries that followed.
Kedar: The tribe descendants of Abraham's son Ishmael, lived as nomads in the Arabian desert. Nebuchadnezzar routed these tribes in 599
Within a year Elam was attacked by Nebuchadnezzar . The country lay east of Babylon, across the Tigris River. The capital, Susa, is mentioned in Nehemiah, Esther, Daniel. It was the winter capital of the Persian Empire.
How?
When Israel suffer those attack from Babylon, the neighbor nations suffer the same terror and attack as Judah. Under the wrath no one can escape from the Lord's punishment. Pray for this land, for even I am doing right, but under suffering comes no one can escape form it. God is full of mercy and love.
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