Jeremiah 49
49
Prophecies against Ammon
1About the Ammonites, # Gn 19:38; Dt 2:19; 23:3; Jdg 10:6-7; 1Sm 11:11; 12:12; 1Kg 11:5-7,33; 2Kg 24:2; Neh 2:10; Is 11:14; Jr 40:14; Ezk 21:28-32; 25:2-10; Am 1:13-15; Zph 2:8-9 this is what the Lord says:
Does Israel have no sons?
Is he without an heir?
Why then has Milcom # LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads Malkam # = Molech dispossessed Gad # 1Kg 11:5,7,33; Zph 1:5
and his people settled in their cities?
2Therefore look, the days are coming # Jr 7:32; 16:14; 19:6; 23:7; 48:12; 51:47,52 —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
when I will make the shout of battle # Jr 4:19 heard
against Rabbah # Dt 3:11; 2Sm 11:1; 12:26-29; Ezk 25:5; Am 1:14 of the Ammonites.
It will become a desolate mound,
and its villages will be burned down.
Israel will dispossess their dispossessors,
says the Lord.
3Wail, Heshbon, # Nm 21:21-25,34; Dt 2:24,30; Jos 12:2; Jdg 11:26; Jr 48:2 for Ai is devastated;
cry out, daughters of Rabbah!
Clothe yourselves with sackcloth, # Jr 48:37 and lament;
run back and forth within your walls, # Or sheep pens
because Milcom will go into exile
together with his priests and officials. # Jr 48:7
4Why do you brag about your valleys,
your flowing valley, # Or about your strength, your ebbing strength
you faithless daughter?
You who trust in your treasures
and boast, “Who can attack me? ”
5Look, I am about to bring terror on you # Jr 48:43-44 —
this is the declaration of
the Lord God of Hosts —
from all those around you.
You will be banished, each man headlong,
with no one to gather up the fugitives.
6But after that, I will restore the fortunes # Or will end the captivity of the Ammonites. # Jr 48:47; 49:39
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Prophecies against Edom
7About Edom, # Gn 25:30; 32:3; 36:1; Nm 20:18-21; Nm 24:18; Jdg 11:17-18; 2Sm 8:14; 2Kg 8:20-22; Ps 60:8; Is 34:5-8 this is what the Lord of Hosts says:
Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? # = a region or city in Edom # Gn 36:15; Ezk 25:13; Am 1:12
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away? # Ob 8-9
8Run! Turn back! Lie low,
residents of Dedan, # Gn 25:1-3; Ezk 25:13
for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him # Gn 25:25,30; 36:1; Ob 8,18
at the time I punish him. # Jr 6:15; 8:12; Ob 8-13
9If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some gleanings? # Dt 24:21
Were thieves to come in the night,
they would destroy only what they wanted. # Ob 5
10But I will strip Esau bare;
I will uncover his secret places. # Jr 23:24; Ob 6
He will try to hide himself, # Ob 3 but he will be unable.
His descendants will be destroyed
along with his relatives and neighbors.
He will exist no longer. # Mal 1:3-4
11Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;
let your widows trust in Me. # Dt 10:18; Ps 68:5; Pr 15:25; Jms 1:27
12“For this is what the Lord says: If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not remain unpunished, for you must drink it too. 13For by Myself I have sworn” # Gn 22:16; 1Sm 3:14; Ps 89:3,35; Is 45:23; 54:9; Jr 22:5; 44:26 — this is the Lord’s declaration — “Bozrah # = Edom’s capital will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will become ruins forever.” # Jr 25:28-29; Am 1:12
14I have heard a message from the Lord;
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
Assemble yourselves to come against her.
Rise up for war!
15Look, I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations,
despised among humanity.
16As to the terror you cause, # Lit Your horror
your presumptuous heart has deceived you.
You who live in the clefts of the rock, # = Petra
you who occupy the mountain summit,
though you elevate your nest like the eagle,
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration. # Ob 1-4
17“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be horrified and scoff because of all her wounds. # Dt 28:37; 2Ch 29:8; 30:7; Jr 5:30; 18:16; 19:8; 25:9,18; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12,22; 50:13; Mc 6:16; Zph 2:15 18As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” # Gn 19:24-25 says the Lord, “no one will live there; no human being will even stay in it as a temporary resident. # Jr 49:33; 50:40; Zph 2:9
19“Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets # Lit pride of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. # Jr 50:44 Indeed, I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like Me? # Mc 7:18 Who will summon Me? # Jb 9:19; Jr 12:5; 50:44; Zch 11:3 Who is the shepherd who can stand against Me? ” # 2Ch 20:6; Jb 41:10
20Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: # Is 14:26; 19:12,17; 23:8; Jr 18:11; 49:30; 50:45; 51:12; Mc 2:3 The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away, # Jr 15:3; 22:19 and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them. # Jr 9:10; 23:10; 25:30-38 21At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; # Is 29:6; 64:1; Ezk 26:15; 31:16; 38:19; Mt 28:2; Rv 8:5 the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea. # Jr 50:40,44-46 22Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions. # Jr 48:40-41
Prophecies against Damascus
23About Damascus: # Is 17:1; Am 1:3
Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, # 2Kg 18:34
for they have heard a bad report and are agitated;
in the sea there is anxiety that cannot be calmed.
24Damascus has become weak;
she has turned to run;
panic has gripped her.
Distress and labor pains have seized her
like a woman in labor. # Is 13:8; 42:14; Jr 4:31; 6:24; 22:23; 30:6; 50:43; Mc 4:9-10
25How can the city of praise not be abandoned, # Jr 33:9
the town that brings Me joy?
26Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares;
all the warriors will perish in that day.
This is the declaration of
the Lord of Hosts. # Jr 50:30
27I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;
it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels. # Am 1:4
Prophecies against Kedar and Hazor
28About Kedar # Gn 25:13; Ps 120:5; Is 21:16-17; 60:7; Jr 2:10; Ezk 27:21 and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, # 2Kg 24:11; 25:22; 2Ch 36:6-13 Babylon’s king, defeated, this is what the Lord says:
Rise up, go against Kedar,
and destroy the people of the east!
29They will take their tents and their flocks
along with their tent curtains and all their equipment.
They will take their camels for themselves.
They will call out to them:
Terror is on every side! # Ps 31:13; Jr 6:25; 20:3-4,10
30Run! Escape quickly! Lie low,
residents of Hazor —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
has drawn up a plan against you;
he has devised a strategy against you.
31Rise up, go up against a nation at ease,
one living in security.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They have no doors, not even a gate bar;
they live alone. # Jdg 18:7-10; Ps 73:12; Is 47:8; Ezk 38:10-11; Zph 2:15; Zch 7:7
32Their camels will become plunder,
and their massive herds of cattle will become spoil. # Is 10:6; Ezk 25:7; Nah 2:9
I will scatter them to the wind in every direction,
those who shave their temples;
I will bring calamity on them across all their borders.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
33Hazor will become a jackals’ den, # Jr 9:11; 10:22; 51:37
a desolation forever.
No one will live there;
no human being will even stay in it as a temporary resident. # Jr 49:18; 50:40
Prophecies against Elam
34This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam # = modern Iran at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. # Jr 27:12; 28:1; 29:3 35This is what the Lord of Hosts says:
I am about to shatter Elam’s bow, # Is 22:6
the source # Lit first of their might.
36I will bring the four winds against Elam
from the four corners of the heavens,
and I will scatter them to all these winds.
There will not be a nation
to which Elam’s banished ones will not go.
37I will devastate Elam before their enemies,
before those who want to take their lives.
I will bring disaster on them,
My burning anger.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will send the sword after them # Jr 9:16
until I finish them off.
38I will set My throne in Elam,
and I will destroy the king and officials from there.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
39In the last days,
I will restore the fortunes # Or will end the captivity of Elam. # Jr 48:47; 49:6
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 49
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1Concerning the Ammonites: Thus said יהוה, “Has Yisra’ĕl no sons? Has he no heir? Why has Malkam taken possession of Gaḏ, and his people dwell in its cities?
2“Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall sound a battle cry in Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be a heap, a wasteland, and her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Yisra’ĕl shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,” declares יהוה.
3“Howl, O Ḥeshbon, for Ai is ravaged! Cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird on sackcloth! Lament and diligently search by the walls, for Malkam shall go into exile, with his priests and his heads.
4“Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter who is trusting in her treasures, saying, ‘Who would come against me?’
5“See, I am bringing fear upon you, from all those around you,” declares the Master יהוה of hosts. “And you shall be driven out, each one straight ahead, with no one to bring home the wanderer.
6“And after this I turn back the captivity of the children of Ammon,” declares יהוה.
7Concerning Eḏom: Thus said יהוה of hosts, “Is there no more wisdom in Tĕman? Has counsel been lost to those with understanding? Has their wisdom vanished?
8“Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Deḏan! For I shall bring the calamity of Ěsaw upon him, the time that I shall punish him.
9“If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? Even thieves by night would destroy only until they had enough!
10“But as for Me, I shall make Ěsaw bare. I shall uncover his hiding places, so that he is unable to conceal himself. His seed is ravaged, his brothers and his neighbours, and he is no more.
11“Leave your fatherless children, let Me keep them alive. And let your widows trust in Me.”
12For thus said יהוה, “See, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have certainly drunk. And are you the one to go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but certainly drink of it.
13“For I have sworn by Myself,” declares יהוה, “that Botsrah is to become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse, and all its cities become everlasting wastes.”
14I have heard a report from יהוה, and an envoy has been sent to the nations, “Gather together, come against her, and rise up to battle!
15“For look, I shall make you small among nations, despised among men.
16“The dread for you, the pride of your heart, has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, holding the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, from there I bring you down,” declares the Master.
17“And Eḏom shall be a ruin, everyone who passes by it is astonished and whistles at all its plagues.
18“As in the overthrow of Seḏom and Amorah and their neighbouring cities,” declares יהוה, “No one shall dwell there, nor would a son of man sojourn in it.
19“See, he comes up like a lion from the Yardĕn jungle against the home of the strong. But in an instant I shall make him run away from her. And who is the Chosen One, to appoint over her? For who is like Me? And who summons Me? And who is that Shepherd who stands before Me?”
20Therefore hear the counsel of יהוה which He has counselled concerning Eḏom, and the purposes He has purposed concerning the inhabitants of Tĕman: the least of the flock shall drag them away! He shall make their pasture a waste before them!
21The earth shall be shaken at the noise of their fall. There is an outcry! Its noise is heard at the Sea of Reeds.
22See, like an eagle he flies up, and spreads his wings over Botsrah. And the heart of the mighty men of Eḏom in that day shall be like the heart of a woman in her pain.
23Concerning Dammeseq: “Ḥamath and Arpaḏ have been put to shame, for they have heard an evil report. They have been melted in anxiety, like the sea, unable to rest.
24“Dammeseq has become feeble, she has turned to flee, and trembling has taken hold of her. Distress and pain have seized her like a woman in labour.
25“How is the city of praise deserted, the city of My joy!
26“Therefore her young men fall in her streets, and all the men of battle are cut off in that day,” declares יהוה of hosts.
27“And I shall kindle a fire in the wall of Dammeseq, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Haḏaḏ.”
28To Qĕḏar and to the reigns of Ḥatsor, which Neḇuḵaḏretstsar sovereign of Baḇel struck: Thus said יהוה, “Arise, go up to Qĕḏar, and ravage the men of the East!
29“Their tents and their flocks, their curtains and all their vessels shall be taken. And they shall take away their camels for themselves. And they shall cry out to them, ‘Fear is on every side!’
30“Flee, go away! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Ḥatsor!” declares יהוה. “For Neḇuḵaḏretstsar sovereign of Baḇel has taken counsel against you, and has devised a plan against you.
31“Arise, go up to the nation at ease that dwells safely,” declares יהוה. “It has no gates or bars, they dwell alone.
32“And their camels shall become plunder, and their large herds booty. And I shall scatter them to all winds, those who cut off the corner, and bring their calamity from all its sides,” declares יהוה.
33"Ḥatsor shall be a habitation for jackals, a desert forever. No one dwells there, nor does son of man sojourn in it.”
34The word of יהוה that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning Ěylam, in the beginning of the reign of Tsiḏqiyah, the sovereign of Yehuḏah, saying,
35“Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘See, I am breaking the bow of Ěylam, the chief of their might.
36And I shall bring upon Ěylam the four winds from the four quarters of the heavens, and scatter them toward all those winds. And there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Ěylam do not go.
37And I shall break Ěylam before their enemies and before those who seek their life. And I shall bring evil upon them, my burning displeasure,’ declares יהוה. ‘And I shall send the sword after them until I have consumed them.
38And I shall set My throne in Ěylam, and destroy from there the sovereign and the heads,’ declares יהוה.
39And it shall be in the latter days that I turn back the captivity of Ěylam,’ declares יהוה.”
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