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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You’re a Broken-Down Has-Been
1-6 God’s Message on the Ammonites:
“Doesn’t Israel have any children,
no one to step into her inheritance?
So why is the god Milcom taking over Gad’s land,
his followers moving into its towns?
But not for long! The time’s coming”
—God’s Decree—
“When I’ll fill the ears of Rabbah, Ammon’s big city,
with battle cries.
She’ll end up a pile of rubble,
all her towns burned to the ground.
Then Israel will kick out the invaders.
I, God, say so, and it will be so.
Wail Heshbon, Ai is in ruins.
Villages of Rabbah, wring your hands!
Dress in mourning, weep buckets of tears.
Go into hysterics, run around in circles!
Your god Milcom will be hauled off to exile,
and all his priests and managers right with him.
Why do you brag of your once-famous strength?
You’re a broken-down has-been, a castoff
Who fondles his trophies and dreams of glory days
and vainly thinks, ‘No one can lay a hand on me.’
Well, think again. I’ll face you with terror from all sides.”
Word of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
“You’ll be stampeded headlong,
with no one to round up the runaways.
Still, the time will come
when I will make things right with Ammon.” God’s Decree.
Strutting Across the Stage of History
7-11The Message of God-of-the-Angel-Armies on Edom:
“Is there nobody wise left in famous Teman?
no one with a sense of reality?
Has their wisdom gone wormy and rotten?
Run for your lives! Get out while you can!
Find a good place to hide,
you who live in Dedan!
I’m bringing doom to Esau.
It’s time to settle accounts.
When harvesters work your fields,
don’t they leave gleanings?
When burglars break into your house,
don’t they take only what they want?
But I’ll strip Esau clean.
I’ll search out every nook and cranny.
I’ll destroy everything connected with him,
children and relatives and neighbors.
There’ll be no one left who will be able to say,
‘I’ll take care of your orphans.
Your widows can depend on me.’”
12-13Indeed. God says, “I tell you, if there are people who have to drink the cup of God’s wrath even though they don’t deserve it, why would you think you’d get off? You won’t get off. You’ll drink it. Oh yes, you’ll drink every drop. And as for Bozrah, your capital, I swear by all that I am”—God’s Decree—“that that city will end up a pile of charred ruins, a stinking garbage dump, an obscenity—and all her daughter-cities with her.”
14I’ve just heard the latest from God.
He’s sent an envoy to the nations:
“Muster your troops and attack Edom.
Present arms! Go to war!”
15-16“Ah, Edom, I’m dropping you to last place among nations,
the bottom of the heap, kicked around.
You think you’re so great—
strutting across the stage of history,
Living high in the impregnable rocks,
acting like king of the mountain.
You think you’re above it all, don’t you,
like an eagle in its aerie?
Well, you’re headed for a fall.
I’ll bring you crashing to the ground.” God’s Decree.
17-18“Edom will end up trash. Stinking, despicable trash. A wonder of the world in reverse. She’ll join Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors in the sewers of history.” God says so.
“No one will live there,
no mortal soul move in there.
19“Watch this: Like a lion coming up
from the thick jungle of the Jordan
Looking for prey in the mountain pastures,
I will come upon Edom and pounce.
I’ll take my pick of the flock—and who’s to stop me?
The shepherds of Edom are helpless before me.”
20-22So, listen to this plan that God has worked out against Edom, the blueprint of what he’s prepared for those who live in Teman:
“Believe it or not, the young, the vulnerable—
mere lambs and kids—will be dragged off.
Believe it or not, the flock
in shock, helpless to help, will watch it happen.
The very earth will shudder because of their cries,
cries of anguish heard at the distant Red Sea.
Look! An eagle soars, swoops down,
spreads its wings over Bozrah.
Brave warriors will double up in pain, helpless to fight,
like a woman giving birth to a baby.”
The Blood Will Drain from the Face of Damascus
23-27The Message on Damascus:
“Hamath and Arpad will be in shock
when they hear the bad news.
Their hearts will melt in fear
as they pace back and forth in worry.
The blood will drain from the face of Damascus
as she turns to flee.
Hysterical, she’ll fall to pieces,
disabled, like a woman in childbirth.
And now how lonely—bereft, abandoned!
The once famous city, the once happy city.
Her bright young men dead in the streets,
her brave warriors silent as death.
On that day”—Decree of God-of-the-Angel-Armies—
“I’ll start a fire at the wall of Damascus
that will burn down all of Ben-hadad’s forts.”
Find a Safe Place to Hide
28-33The Message on Kedar and the sheikdoms of Hazor who were attacked by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. This is God’s Message:
“On your feet! Attack Kedar!
Plunder the Bedouin nomads from the east.
Grab their blankets and pots and pans.
Steal their camels.
Traumatize them, shouting, ‘Terror! Death! Doom!
Danger everywhere!’
Oh, run for your lives,
You nomads from Hazor.” God’s Decree.
“Find a safe place to hide.
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
has plans to wipe you out,
to go after you with a vengeance:
‘After them,’ he says. ‘Go after these relaxed nomads
who live free and easy in the desert,
Who live in the open with no doors to lock,
who live off by themselves.’
Their camels are there for the taking,
their herds and flocks, easy picking.
I’ll scatter them to the four winds,
these defenseless nomads on the fringes of the desert.
I’ll bring terror from every direction.
They won’t know what hit them.” God’s Decree.
“Jackals will take over the camps of Hazor,
camps abandoned to wind and sand.
No one will live there,
no mortal soul move in there.”
The Winds Will Blow Away Elam
34-39 God’s Message to the prophet Jeremiah on Elam at the outset of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what God-of-the-Angel-Armies says:
“Watch this! I’ll break Elam’s bow,
her weapon of choice, across my knee.
Then I’ll let four winds loose on Elam,
winds from the four corners of earth.
I’ll blow them away in all directions,
landing homeless Elamites in every country on earth.
They’ll live in constant fear and terror
among enemies who want to kill them.
I’ll bring doom on them,
my anger-fueled doom.
I’ll set murderous hounds on their heels
until there’s nothing left of them.
And then I’ll set up my throne in Elam,
having thrown out the king and his henchmen.
But the time will come when I make
everything right for Elam again.” God’s Decree.
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