Jeremiah Chapter 49 Back Next{49:1} Of the children of
Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has
Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does
Malcam possess
Gad, and his people well in its cities?
{49:2} Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an
alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with
fire: then shall Israel possess those who possessed him, says Yahweh.
{49:3} 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 shall go into
captivity, his priests and his princes together.
{49:4} Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come to me?
{49:5} Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the
fugitives.
{49:6} But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says Yahweh.
{49:7} Of
Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
{49:8} Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of
Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of
Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.
{49:9} If
grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough?
{49:10} But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his
brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
{49:11} Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
{49:12} For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to
drink of the
cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.
{49:13} For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that
Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.
{49:14} I have heard news from Yahweh, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
{49:15} For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.
{49:16} As for your terror, the pride of your
heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the
hill: though you should make your nest as high as the
eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
{49:17} Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall
hiss at all its plagues.
{49:18} As in the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.
{49:19} Behold, he shall come up like a
lion from the pride of the
Jordan against the strong
habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? And who will appoint me a time? And who is the shepherd who will stand before me?
{49:20} Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
{49:21} The
earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the
Red Sea.
{49:22} Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
{49:23} Of
Damascus.
Hamath is confounded, and
Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.
{49:24} Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
{49:25} How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
{49:26} Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies.
{49:27} I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of
Ben Hadad.
{49:28} Of
Kedar, and of the kingdoms of
Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the
children of the east.
{49:29} Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!
{49:30} Flee, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.
{49:31} Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says Yahweh; that have neither
gates nor bars, that dwell alone.
{49:32} Their camels shall be a
booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the
corners of their
beards cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
{49:33} Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.
{49:34} The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning
Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of
Judah, saying,
{49:35} Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
{49:36} On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
{49:37} I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;
{49:38} and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says Yahweh.
{49:39} But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.
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