Jeremiah 49
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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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Jeremiah 49
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The LORD's Judgement on Ammon
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Ezek 21.28–32; 25.1–7; Amos 1.13–15; Zeph 2.8–11 This is what the LORD said about Ammon: “Where are the men of Israel? Is there no one to defend their land? Why have they let the people who worship Molech take the territory of the tribe of Gad and settle there? 2But the time is coming when I will make the people of the capital city of Rabbah hear the noise of battle, and it will be left in ruins and its villages burnt to the ground. Then Israel will take its land back from those who took it from them. 3People of Heshbon, cry out! Ai is destroyed! Women of Rabbah, go into mourning! Put on sackcloth and mourn. Run about in confusion. Your god Molech will be taken into exile, together with his priests and princes. 4Why do you unfaithful people boast? Your strength is failing. Why do you trust in your power and say that no one would dare attack you? 5I will bring terror on you from every side. You will all run away. Each one will run for his life, and there will be no one to bring your troops together again.
6“But later on I will make Ammon prosperous again. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
The LORD's Judgement on Edom
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Is 34.5–17; 63.1–6; Ezek 25.12–14; 35.1–15; Amos 1.11–12; Obad 1–14; Mal 1.2–5 This is what the LORD Almighty said about Edom: “Have the people of Edom lost their good judgement? Can their advisers no longer tell them what to do? Has all their wisdom disappeared? 8People of Dedan, turn and run! Hide! I am going to destroy Esau's descendants, because the time has come for me to punish them. 9When people pick grapes, they leave a few on the vines, and when robbers come at night, they take only what they want. 10But I#49.9–10 they leave a few… they take only what they want. 10 But I; or they leave nothing… they take everything. 10 And so I. have stripped Esau's descendants completely and uncovered their hiding places, so that they can no longer hide. All the people of Edom are destroyed. Not one of them is left. 11Leave your orphans with me, and I will take care of them. Your widows can depend on me.
12“If even those who did not deserve to be punished had to drink from the cup of punishment, do you think that you will go unpunished? No, you must drink from the cup! 13I myself have sworn that the city of Bozrah will become a horrifying sight and a desert; people will jeer at it and use its name as a curse. All the nearby villages will be in ruins for ever. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
14I said, “Edom, I have received a message from the LORD. He has sent a messenger to tell the nations to assemble their armies and to get ready to attack you. 15The LORD is going to make you weak, and no one will respect you. 16Your pride has deceived you. No one fears you as much as you think they do. You live on the rocky cliffs, high on top of the mountain; but even though you live as high up as an eagle, the LORD will bring you down. The LORD has spoken.”
17The LORD said, “The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified. 18#Gen 19.24–25The same thing will happen to Edom as happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when they and the nearby towns were destroyed. No one will ever live there again. I, the LORD, have spoken. 19Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan up to the green pasture land, I will come and make the Edomites run away suddenly from their country. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me? 20So listen to the plan that I have made against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified. 21When Edom falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake, and the cries of alarm will be heard as far away as the Gulf of Aqaba. 22The enemy will attack Bozrah like an eagle swooping down with outspread wings. On that day Edom's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labour.”
The LORD's Judgement on Damascus
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Is 17.1–3; Amos 1.3–5; Zech 9.1 This is what the LORD said about Damascus: “The people in the cities of Hamath and Arpad are worried and troubled because they have heard bad news. Anxiety rolls over them like a sea, and they cannot rest. 24The people of Damascus are weak and have fled in terror. They are in pain and misery like a woman in labour. 25The famous city that used to be happy#49.25 Some ancient translations happy; Hebrew my happiness. is completely deserted. 26On that day her young men will be killed in the city streets, and all her soldiers destroyed. 27I will set the walls of Damascus on fire and will burn down King Benhadad's palaces. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken.”
Judgement on the Tribe of Kedar and the City of Hazor
28This is what the LORD said about the tribe of Kedar and the districts controlled by Hazor, which were conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia: “Attack the people of Kedar and destroy that tribe of eastern people! 29Seize their tents and their flocks, their tent curtains and everything in their tents. Take their camels and tell the people, ‘Terror is all round you!’
30“People of Hazor, I, the LORD, warn you to run far away and hide. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia has plotted against you, and this is what he says, 31‘Come on! We'll attack those people that feel safe and secure! Their city has no gates or locks and is completely unprotected.’
32“Take their camels and all their livestock! I will scatter in every direction those people who cut their hair short, and I will bring disaster on them from every side. 33Hazor will be made a desert for ever, a place where only jackals live. No one will ever live there again. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
The LORD's Judgement on Elam
34Soon after Zedekiah became king of Judah, the LORD Almighty spoke to me about the country of Elam. 35He said, “I will kill all the archers who have made Elam so powerful. 36I will make winds blow against Elam from all directions, and I will scatter her people everywhere, until there is no country where her refugees have not gone. 37I will make the people of Elam afraid of their enemies, who want to kill them. In my great anger I will destroy the people of Elam and send armies against them until I have wiped them out. 38I will destroy their kings and leaders, and set up my throne there. 39But later on I will make the people of Elam prosperous again. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
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