Jeremiah 49

1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith יהוה: “Hath Yisrael no sons? Hath he no heir? Why then doth their king inherits Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?

2 Therefore, behold, the days come,” saith יהוה, “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 Yisrael be heir unto them that were his heirs,” saith יהוה.

3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled! Cry, you 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 (kohanim) and his princes together.

4 Wherefore gloriest you in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter who trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who shall come unto me?’

5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon you,” saith Lord (Adonai) יהוה of hosts (YHWH Tsevaot), “from all those that be about you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon,” saith יהוה.

7 Concerning Edom, thus saith יהוה of hosts (YHWH Tsevaot): “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the prudent? Is their wisdom vanished?

8 Flee you, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the disaster of Esaw upon him, the time that I will visit him.

9 If grapegatherers come to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

10 But I have made Esaw bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in Me.”

12 For thus saith יהוה; “Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished? You shalt not go unpunished, but you shalt surely drink of it.

13 “For I have sworn by Myself,” saith יהוה: “that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.”

14 I have heard a news from יהוה, and an ambassador is sent unto the nations, saying: “Gather you together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle!

15 For, behold, I will make you small among the heathen, and despised among men.

16 Your terribleness hath deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill! Though you shouldest make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from thence,” saith יהוה.

17 Also Edom shall be a desolation; every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof,” saith יהוה, “no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan (Yarden) 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?”

20 Therefore hear the counsel of יהוה, 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.

21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall; at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

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.

23 Concerning Damascus (Dammeseq). “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad, for they have heard evil tidings; they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

24 Damascus (Dammeseq) is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of My joy!

26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” saith יהוה of hosts (YHWH Tsevaot).

27 “And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus (Dammeseq), and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”

28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon (Bavel) shall smite, thus saith יהוה: “Arise you, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east!

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 unto them, Fear is on every side!’

30 “Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O you inhabitants of Hazor,” saith יהוה. “For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon (Bavel) hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care,” saith יהוה, “which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

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 disaster from all sides thereof,” saith יהוה.

33 “And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation forever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.”

34 The word of יהוה that came to Jeremiah (Yirmeyahu) the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah (Tsidqiyahu) king of Judah (Yehudah), saying,

35 “Thus saith יהוה of hosts (YHWH Tsevaot): ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

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 יהוה; ‘and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

38 And I will set My throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes,’ saith יהוה.

39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam,’ saith יהוה.”