AB - Jeremiah - 49

49:1  Concerning the sons of Ammon, thus says the Lord: Are there no sons in Israel? Or have they no one to succeed them? Why has Milcom inherited Gilead, and why shall their people dwell in their cities?

49:2  Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause a tumult of wars to be heard in Rabbah; and they shall become a waste and ruined place, and her altars shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel succeed to his dominion.

49:3  Howl, O Heshbron, for Ai has perished; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament; for Milcom shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.

49:4  Why do you boast in the plains of the Enakim, you haughty daughter, that trust in your treasures, that say, Who shall come in to me?

49:5  Behold, I will bring terror upon you, says the Lord, from all the country round about you; and you shall be scattered, everyone right before him, and there is none to gather you.

49:7  Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord: There is no longer wisdom in Teman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,

49:8  their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, you that inhabit Dedan, for he has wrought grievously. I have brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.

49:9  For grape gatherers have come, who shall not leave to you a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon your possessions.

49:10  For I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have perished, each by the hand of his brother, My neighbor, and it is impossible

49:11  for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in Me.

49:12  For thus says the Lord: They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk; and you shall by no means be cleared.

49:13  For by Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that you shall be in the midst of her an impassable land, and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be deserted forever.

49:14  I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent messengers to the nations, saying, Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise up to war.

49:15  I have made you small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.

49:16  Your insolence has risen up against you, the fierceness of your heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high; from there will I bring you down.

49:17  And Edom shall be a desert; everyone that passes by shall hiss at it.

49:18  As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, and they that sojourned in her, says the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.

49:19  Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of the Jordan to the place of Etham; for I will speedily drive them from it, and I will set the young men against her; for who is like Me? And who will withstand Me? And who is this shepherd, who shall confront Me?

49:20  Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord which He has framed against Edom, and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.

49:21  For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.

49:22  Behold, He shall look upon her as an eagle, and spread forth His wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

49:23  Concerning Damascus: Hamath is brought to shame, and Arpad; for they have heard an evil report. They are amazed, they are angry, they shall be utterly unable to rest.

49:24  Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has seized upon her.

49:25  How has she not left My city, they have loved the village?

49:26  Therefore shall the young men fall in your streets, and all your warriors shall fall, says the Lord.

49:27  And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the streets of the son of Ader.

49:28  Concerning Kedar, the queen of the palace, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, thus says the Lord: Arise, and go up to Kedar, and fill the sons of Kedem.

49:29  They shall take their tents and their sheep, they shall take for themselves their garments, and all their baggage and their camels; and summon destruction against them from every side.

49:30  Flee, dig very deep for a dwelling place, you that dwell in the palace; for the king of Babylon has framed a counsel, and devised a device against you.

49:31  Rise up, and go up against a nation settled and dwelling at ease, who have no doors, nor bolts, nor bars, who dwell alone.

49:32  And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed; and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads; I will bring on their overthrow from all sides, says the Lord.

49:33  And the palace shall be a resting place for ostriches, and desolate forever. No man shall abide there, and no son of man shall dwell there.

49:34  The prophecies of Jeremiah against the nations of Elam:

49:35  Thus says the Lord: The bow of Elam is broken, even the chief of their power.

49:36  And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation to which they shall not come, even the outcasts of Elam.

49:37  And I will put them in fear before their enemies that seek their life; and I will bring evils upon them according to My great anger; and I will send forth My sword after them, until I have utterly destroyed them.

49:38  And I will set My throne in Elam, and I will send forth from there king and rulers.

49:39  But it shall come to pass at the end of days, that I will turn the captivity of Elam, says the Lord.