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Jeremiah 49

49 On the Ammonites. Here is the Eternal’s word:

Has Israel no sons, no heir?

Why, then, is Gad claimed by god Milkom?

Why do his people tenant towns of Gad?

Therefore a day comes (the Eternal declares)

when I will send the war-cry

against Rabbah of the Ammonites,

till it is left a desolate heap,

its townships in the flames.

Then shall Israel come to hold

those who now hold her.

Howl, O palace of Rabbah,

at the sack of the city!

Scream, ye women of Rabbah,

gird yourselves with sackcloth,

wail and run about in mourning:

for Milkom is deported

with his priests and princes.

Why vaunt your valleys,

you careless creature,

so proud of your resources,

so sure you are beyond attack?

I will put you in terror

of all who are around you,

says the Lord, the Lord of hosts,

till you are routed headlong,

past all rallying. 6 [[Though later on, so the Eternal promises, I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites.]]

7 On Edom.

Here is the word from the Lord of hosts:

Teman is no longer shrewd;

wary men have lost their wits,

their shrewdness has failed them.

So turn and fly to your retreats,

ye dwellers in Dedan;

for I bring upon Esau his doom,

his hour of punishment.

If gatherers of grapes came upon you,

would they leave any grapes to glean?

If robbers in the night came on you,

would they not steal more than they need?

So I strip Esau clean and bare,

I have laid open his retreats,

till he cannot conceal himself--

he is stamped out to a man.

Yet leave to me your orphans,

I will save them;

let your widows trust to me. 12 Here is the Eternal’s sentence: “If those who did not deserve to drink the cup of the divine anger have to drink it notwithstanding, are you to go unpunished? No, you shall not get off; drink it you must. 13 For I have sworn by my own life, that Busaireh shall be waste and cursed, desolate and derided, with all its hamlets laid in ruin for all time.”

The Eternal sends me news

of an envoy sent to the nations,

bidding them muster against Edom,

to make war upon her.

“For I will make you least among the nations,

despised in the world of men.

How you will shudder then!

Your pride of heart has played you false,

perched in your fastness of the rocks,

ensconced upon your precipices!

Nest high as any eagle,

but I will pull you down, says the Eternal,

till Edom is a shocking desolation,

till passers-by whistle in surprise

and horror at its ruin;

as when Sodom and Gomorrah fell,

with the towns around them,

not a soul shall live there,

not a man shall dwell there.

Like shepherds when the lion leaves

the jungle of Jordan for the pasture,

I will chase them away suddenly,

and seize their rarest rams.

Who can match me? Who dare challenge me?

What shepherd can face me?

Hear, then, the Eternal’s plan against Edom,

his purpose for the Temanites:

their shepherd lads shall be dragged away,

and the farm appalled at their fate!

Earth trembles at the crash of Edom’s fall;

the noise resounds to the Reed Sea.

Here is an eagle swooping

with a dash upon Busaireh!

The heart of Edom’s warriors on that day

is weak as any woman’s in her pangs.”

23 On Damascus.

Hamath and Arpad are dumbfounded,

when the bad news comes;

they surge uneasy as the sea,

restless in their anxiety.

Damascus has collapsed,

and turned to fly,

seized suddenly with shuddering,

caught by sharp anguish,

like a woman in her pangs.

Woe to her, a famous city,

a gay city, now forlorn!

I will fling fires of war upon Damascus’ walls,

to burn up all Benhadad’s palaces. 28 On Kedar and the realm of Hazor, conquered by Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. Here is the Eternal’s word:

“Up against Kedar,

ravage the Arabs!

The foe shall seize their tents and flocks,

their wares, their curtains, and their camels,

yelling fiercely at them,

scaring them on every side.

Turn and fly far to your retreats,

inhabitants of Hazor;

for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon

has planned and purposed to attack you.”

31 The Eternal’s word is:

“Up and attack them,

a people at their ease, untroubled,

with neither gate nor bar,

living remote from men;

their camels shall be your booty,

their vast herds fall to you.

I scatter to the winds

the crop-haired folk,

raining ruin upon them

from every side, 33 till Hazor is a heap of ruins,

a mere haunt of jackals; not a soul shall live there, not a man shall dwell there.”

34 The Eternal’s message to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. 35 The Lord of hosts declares:

“I will break the bow of Elam,

their mainstay;

[[hurl against Elam the four winds of the world

and scatter them to the winds,

till there is not a nation

where no waifs from Elam come;]]

I will make Elam quail before their foes,

before their murderers;

raining ruin upon them,

my fierce heat of anger;

sending the sword after them,

till they are all consumed;

to pass sentence of doom, out of Elam,

on its king and on its chiefs. 39 [[Though in the latter days--so the Eternal promises--I will restore the fortunes of Elam.]]”