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Message About Ammon
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 unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: 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 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing
valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her
treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord
GOD of hosts, from all those that be 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.
A Message About Edom
49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is
wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the
prudent? is 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 grapegatherers 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 spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, 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 drunken; 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 the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
49:14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an
ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye
together, 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
thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest
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 the plagues
thereof.
49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbour cities thereof, 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 thereof 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.
A Message About Damascus
49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad:
for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted;
there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
49:24 Damascus 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.
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 Benhadad.
A Message About Kedar
and Hazor
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 spoil 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 unto 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, get you up unto 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 thereof, 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.
A Message About Elam
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 toward 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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