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         <div class="label">44</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Disaster Because of Idolatry</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.44.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in Lower Egypt&#8212;in Migdol, Tahpanhes and Memphis&#8212;and in Upper Egypt: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.44.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw the great disaster I brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah. Today they lie deserted and in ruins </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.44.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">because of the evil they have done. They aroused my anger by burning incense to and worshiping other gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors ever knew. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.44.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, &#8216;Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.44.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.44.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.44.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.44.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.44.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Why arouse my anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves a curse</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed; also in verse 12; similarly in verse 22.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and an object of reproach among all the nations on earth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.44.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Have you forgotten the wickedness committed by your ancestors and by the kings and queens of Judah and the wickedness committed by you and your wives in the land of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.44.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed my law and the decrees I set before you and your ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.44.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.44.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am determined to bring disaster on you and to destroy all Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.44.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will take away the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine. They will become a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.44.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will punish those who live in Egypt with the sword, famine and plague, as I punished Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.44.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.44.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.44.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present&#8212;a large assembly&#8212;and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.44.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.44.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.44.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.44.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.44.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The women added, &#8220;When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes impressed with her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.44.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.44.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.44.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Did not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> remember and call to mind the incense burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by you and your ancestors, your kings and your officials and the people of the land? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.44.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.44.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Because you have burned incense and have sinned against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and have not obeyed him or followed his law or his decrees or his stipulations, this disaster has come upon you, as you now see.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.44.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.44.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including the women, &#8220;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all you people of Judah in Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.44.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have done what you said you would do when you promised, &#8216;We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.44.25"><span class="content">&#8220;Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows! </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.44.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all you Jews living in Egypt: &#8216;I swear by my great name,&#8217; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, &#8220;As surely as the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.44.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For I am watching over them for harm, not for good; the Jews in Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.44.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Those who escape the sword and return to the land of Judah from Egypt will be very few. Then the whole remnant of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand&#8212;mine or theirs.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.44.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.44.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This will be the sign to you that I will punish you in this place,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.44.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;I am going to deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who want to kill him, just as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who wanted to kill him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">45</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Message to Baruch</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.45.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.45.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.45.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You said, &#8216;Woe to me! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.45.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has told me to say to you, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.45.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">46</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Message About Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.46.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.46.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.46.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Concerning Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.46.2"><span class="content">This is the message against the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.46.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.46.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Prepare your shields, both large and small,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.46.3"><span class="content">and march out for battle!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.46.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.46.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Harness the horses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.46.4"><span class="content">mount the steeds!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.46.4"><span class="content">Take your positions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.46.4"><span class="content">with helmets on!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.46.4"><span class="content">Polish your spears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.46.4"><span class="content">put on your armor!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.46.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">What do I see?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="content">They are terrified,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="content">they are retreating,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="content">their warriors are defeated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="content">They flee in haste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="content">without looking back,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="content">and there is terror on every side,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.46.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.46.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;The swift cannot flee</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.46.6"><span class="content">nor the strong escape.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.46.6"><span class="content">In the north by the River Euphrates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.46.6"><span class="content">they stumble and fall.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.46.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.46.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who is this that rises like the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.46.7"><span class="content">like rivers of surging waters?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.46.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.46.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Egypt rises like the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.46.8"><span class="content">like rivers of surging waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.46.8"><span class="content">She says, &#8216;I will rise and cover the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.46.8"><span class="content">I will destroy cities and their people.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.46.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.46.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Charge, you horses!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.46.9"><span class="content">Drive furiously, you charioteers!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.46.9"><span class="content">March on, you warriors&#8212;men of Cush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Put who carry shields,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.46.9"><span class="content">men of Lydia who draw the bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.46.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.46.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But that day belongs to the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.46.10"><span class="content">a day of vengeance, for vengeance on his foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.46.10"><span class="content">The sword will devour till it is satisfied,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.46.10"><span class="content">till it has quenched its thirst with blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.46.10"><span class="content">For the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, will offer sacrifice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.46.10"><span class="content">in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.46.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.46.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go up to Gilead and get balm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.46.11"><span class="content">Virgin Daughter Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.46.11"><span class="content">But you try many medicines in vain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.46.11"><span class="content">there is no healing for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.46.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.46.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The nations will hear of your shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.46.12"><span class="content">your cries will fill the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.46.12"><span class="content">One warrior will stumble over another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.46.12"><span class="content">both will fall down together.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.46.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.46.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the message the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.46.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.46.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Announce this in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.46.14"><span class="content">proclaim it also in Memphis and Tahpanhes:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.46.14"><span class="content">&#8216;Take your positions and get ready,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.46.14"><span class="content">for the sword devours those around you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.46.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.46.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Why will your warriors be laid low?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.46.15"><span class="content">They cannot stand, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will push them down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.46.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.46.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They will stumble repeatedly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.46.16"><span class="content">they will fall over each other.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.46.16"><span class="content">They will say, &#8216;Get up, let us go back</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.46.16"><span class="content">to our own people and our native lands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.46.16"><span class="content">away from the sword of the oppressor.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.46.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.46.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There they will exclaim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.46.17"><span class="content">&#8216;Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.46.17"><span class="content">he has missed his opportunity.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.46.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.46.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;As surely as I live,&#8221; declares the King,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.46.18"><span class="content">whose name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.46.18"><span class="content">&#8220;one will come who is like Tabor among the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.46.18"><span class="content">like Carmel by the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.46.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.46.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Pack your belongings for exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.46.19"><span class="content">you who live in Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.46.19"><span class="content">for Memphis will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.46.19"><span class="content">and lie in ruins without inhabitant.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.46.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.46.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Egypt is a beautiful heifer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.46.20"><span class="content">but a gadfly is coming</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.46.20"><span class="content">against her from the north.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.46.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.46.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The mercenaries in her ranks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.46.21"><span class="content">are like fattened calves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.46.21"><span class="content">They too will turn and flee together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.46.21"><span class="content">they will not stand their ground,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.46.21"><span class="content">for the day of disaster is coming upon them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.46.21"><span class="content">the time for them to be punished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.46.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.46.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.46.22"><span class="content">as the enemy advances in force;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.46.22"><span class="content">they will come against her with axes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.46.22"><span class="content">like men who cut down trees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.46.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.46.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They will chop down her forest,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.46.23"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.46.23"><span class="content">&#8220;dense though it be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.46.23"><span class="content">They are more numerous than locusts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.46.23"><span class="content">they cannot be counted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.46.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.46.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Daughter Egypt will be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.46.24"><span class="content">given into the hands of the people of the north.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.46.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.46.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: &#8220;I am about to bring punishment on Amon god of Thebes, on Pharaoh, on Egypt and her gods and her kings, and on those who rely on Pharaoh. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.46.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will give them into the hands of those who want to kill them&#8212;Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Later, however, Egypt will be inhabited as in times past,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.46.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.46.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.46.27"><span class="content">do not be dismayed, Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.46.27"><span class="content">I will surely save you out of a distant place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.46.27"><span class="content">your descendants from the land of their exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.46.27"><span class="content">Jacob will again have peace and security,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.46.27"><span class="content">and no one will make him afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.46.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.46.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.46.28"><span class="content">for I am with you,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.46.28"><span class="content">&#8220;Though I completely destroy all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.46.28"><span class="content">among which I scatter you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.46.28"><span class="content">I will not completely destroy you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.46.28"><span class="content">I will discipline you but only in due measure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.46.28"><span class="content">I will not let you go entirely unpunished.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">47</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Message About the Philistines</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.47.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.47.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.47.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.47.2"><span class="content">&#8220;See how the waters are rising in the north;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.47.2"><span class="content">they will become an overflowing torrent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.47.2"><span class="content">They will overflow the land and everything in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.47.2"><span class="content">the towns and those who live in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.47.2"><span class="content">The people will cry out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.47.2"><span class="content">all who dwell in the land will wail</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.47.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.47.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">at the sound of the hooves of galloping steeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.47.3"><span class="content">at the noise of enemy chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.47.3"><span class="content">and the rumble of their wheels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.47.3"><span class="content">Parents will not turn to help their children;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.47.3"><span class="content">their hands will hang limp.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.47.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.47.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the day has come</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.47.4"><span class="content">to destroy all the Philistines</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.47.4"><span class="content">and to remove all survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.47.4"><span class="content">who could help Tyre and Sidon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.47.4"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is about to destroy the Philistines,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.47.4"><span class="content">the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">47:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, Crete</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.47.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.47.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Gaza will shave her head in mourning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.47.5"><span class="content">Ashkelon will be silenced.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.47.5"><span class="content">You remnant on the plain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.47.5"><span class="content">how long will you cut yourselves?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.47.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.47.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Alas, sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.47.6"><span class="content">how long till you rest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.47.6"><span class="content">Return to your sheath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.47.6"><span class="content">cease and be still.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.47.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.47.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But how can it rest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.47.7"><span class="content">when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.47.7"><span class="content">when he has ordered it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.47.7"><span class="content">to attack Ashkelon and the coast?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.49.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Concerning the Ammonites:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.49.1"><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.49.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Has Israel no sons?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.49.1"><span class="content">Has Israel no heir?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.49.1"><span class="content">Why then has Molek</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">their king</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3</span></span></span><span class="content"> taken possession of Gad?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.49.1"><span class="content">Why do his people live in its towns?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.49.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But the days are coming,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">&#8220;when I will sound the battle cry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">against Rabbah of the Ammonites;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">it will become a mound of ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">and its surrounding villages will be set on fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">Then Israel will drive out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">those who drove her out,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.49.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.49.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.49.3"><span class="content">Cry out, you inhabitants of Rabbah!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.49.3"><span class="content">Put on sackcloth and mourn;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.49.3"><span class="content">rush here and there inside the walls,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.49.3"><span class="content">for Molek will go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.49.3"><span class="content">together with his priests and officials.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.49.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.49.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Why do you boast of your valleys,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.49.4"><span class="content">boast of your valleys so fruitful?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.49.4"><span class="content">Unfaithful Daughter Ammon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.49.4"><span class="content">you trust in your riches and say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.49.4"><span class="content">&#8216;Who will attack me?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.49.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.49.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will bring terror on you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.49.5"><span class="content">from all those around you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.49.5"><span class="content">declares the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.49.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Every one of you will be driven away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.49.5"><span class="content">and no one will gather the fugitives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.49.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.49.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet afterward, I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.49.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Message About Edom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.49.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.49.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Concerning Edom:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.49.7"><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.49.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.49.7"><span class="content">Has counsel perished from the prudent?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.49.7"><span class="content">Has their wisdom decayed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.49.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.49.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Turn and flee, hide in deep caves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.49.8"><span class="content">you who live in Dedan,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.49.8"><span class="content">for I will bring disaster on Esau</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.49.8"><span class="content">at the time when I punish him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.49.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.49.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If grape pickers came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.49.9"><span class="content">would they not leave a few grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.49.9"><span class="content">If thieves came during the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.49.9"><span class="content">would they not steal only as much as they wanted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.49.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.49.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But I will strip Esau bare;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.49.10"><span class="content">I will uncover his hiding places,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.49.10"><span class="content">so that he cannot conceal himself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.49.10"><span class="content">His armed men are destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.49.10"><span class="content">also his allies and neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.49.10"><span class="content">so there is no one to say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.49.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.49.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8216;Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.49.11"><span class="content">Your widows too can depend on me.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.49.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.49.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.49.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I swear by myself,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.</span></span></span><span class="content"> an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruins forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.49.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.49.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have heard a message from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.49.14"><span class="content">an envoy was sent to the nations to say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.49.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Assemble yourselves to attack it!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.49.14"><span class="content">Rise up for battle!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.49.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.49.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now I will make you small among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.49.15"><span class="content">despised by mankind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.49.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.49.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The terror you inspire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.49.16"><span class="content">and the pride of your heart have deceived you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.49.16"><span class="content">you who live in the clefts of the rocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.49.16"><span class="content">who occupy the heights of the hill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.49.16"><span class="content">Though you build your nest as high as the eagle&#8217;s,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.49.16"><span class="content">from there I will bring you down,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.49.16"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.49.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.49.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Edom will become an object of horror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.49.17"><span class="content">all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.49.17"><span class="content">because of all its wounds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.49.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.49.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.49.18"><span class="content">along with their neighboring towns,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.49.18"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.49.18"><span class="content">&#8220;so no one will live there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.49.18"><span class="content">no people will dwell in it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.49.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.49.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Like a lion coming up from Jordan&#8217;s thickets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.49.19"><span class="content">to a rich pastureland,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.49.19"><span class="content">I will chase Edom from its land in an instant.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.49.19"><span class="content">Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.49.19"><span class="content">Who is like me and who can challenge me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.49.19"><span class="content">And what shepherd can stand against me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.49.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.49.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Therefore, hear what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has planned against Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.49.20"><span class="content">what he has purposed against those who live in Teman:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.49.20"><span class="content">The young of the flock will be dragged away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.49.20"><span class="content">their pasture will be appalled at their fate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.49.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.49.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">At the sound of their fall the earth will tremble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.49.21"><span class="content">their cry will resound to the Red Sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.49.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.49.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.49.22"><span class="content">spreading its wings over Bozrah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.49.22"><span class="content">In that day the hearts of Edom&#8217;s warriors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.49.22"><span class="content">will be like the heart of a woman in labor.</span></span></div>
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