“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah!
Clothe yourself in sackcloth.
Lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter?
You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’ Behold, I will bring a terror on you,”
says the Lord, GOD of Armies, “from all who are around you.
All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.