49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel
no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king inherit
Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
49:2 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the
Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters
shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir to them
that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste: cry, ye daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by
the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his
priests and his princes together.
49:4 Why gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying],
Who shall come to me?
49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD
of hosts, from all those that are about thee; and ye shall be
driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him
that wandereth.
49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the
children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom
no more in Teman? hath counsel perished from the prudent? hath
their wisdom vanished?
49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for
I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I
will visit him.
49:9 If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave
[some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy
till they have enough.
49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret
places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is
laid waste, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he [is]
not.
49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them]
alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
49:12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment [was]
not to drink of the cup have assuredly drank; and [art] thou he
[that] shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go
unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].
49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah
shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse;
and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.
49:14 I have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an embassador is
sent to the heathen, [saying], Assemble, and come against her,
and rise up to the battle.
49:15 For lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, [and]
despised among men.
49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of
thy heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that
holdest the hight of the hill: though thou shouldst make thy
nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,
saith the LORD.
49:17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by
it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues.
49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighboring [cities], saith the LORD, no man shall abide there,
neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will
suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen
[man], [that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and
who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that
will stand before me?
49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against
the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the flock shall
draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate
with them.
49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry
the noise of it was heard in the Red sea.
49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread
his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the
mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for
they have heard evil tidings: they are faint-hearted; [there
is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
49:24 Damascus hath become feeble, [and] turneth herself to
flee, and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have
taken her, as a woman in travail.
49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all
the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of
hosts.
49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith
the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and lay waste the men of
the east.
49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they
shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels,
and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Fear [is] on
every side.
49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of
Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath
taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against
you.
49:31 Arise, go up to the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without
care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars,
[which] dwell alone.
49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of
their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them
[that are] in the utmost corners; and I will bring their
calamity from all sides of it, saith the LORD.
49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a
desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any]
son of man dwell in it.
49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of
Judah, saying,
49:35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow
of Elam, the chief of their might.
49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four
quarters of heaven, and will scatter them towards all those
winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of
Elam shall not come.
49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil
upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will
send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from
thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I
will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
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