Jeremiah 49–50

49^||aConcerning the Ammonites, thus saith the Lord;

Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir?

Why then doth ^||their king inherit ^bGad,

And his people dwell in his cities?

²Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,

That I will cause ^can alarm of war to be heard in ^dRabbah of the Ammonites;

And it shall be a desolate ^eheap,

And ^fher daughters shall be burned with fire:

Then shall ^gIsrael be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the Lord.

³Howl, O ^ggHeshbon, for ^hAi is spoiled:

Cry, ye daughters of ^dRabbah, ⁱgird you with sackcloth;

Lament, and ^jrun to and fro by the hedges;

For ^||their king shall go into captivity,

And ^khis priests and his princes together.

⁴Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys,

^||Thy flowing valley, ^lO backsliding daughter?

^mThat trusted in her treasures, ⁿsaying, ^oWho shall come unto me?

⁵Behold, ^pI 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 ^qnone shall gather up him that wandereth.

⁶And ^rafterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.

^7sConcerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts;

^tIs wisdom no more in ^uTeman?

^vIs counsel perished from the prudent?

Is their wisdom vanished?

^8wFlee ye, ^||turn back,

^wDwell deep, O inhabitants of ^xDedan;

For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,

^yThe time that I will visit him.

^9zIf grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some ^agleaning grapes?

^zIf thieves by night, they will destroy ^†till they have enough.

¹⁰But ^bI 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 ^che is not.

¹¹Leave thy fatherless children, I ^dwill preserve them alive;

And let thy widows trust in me.

¹²For thus saith the Lord;

Behold, they whose judgment was ^enot to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken;

And ^fart thou he that shall altogether go unpunished?

Thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

¹³For ^gI have sworn by myself, saith the Lord,

That ^hBozrah shall become ⁱa desolation,

^kA reproach, a waste, and ^la curse;

And all the cities thereof shall be ^mperpetual wastes.

¹⁴ⁿI have ^oheard a rumour from the Lord,

And an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, ^oosaying,

Gather ye together,

And come against her, and rise up to the battle.

¹⁵For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen,

And despised among men.

¹⁶Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart,

O thou that dwellest ^pin the clefts of ^pqthe rock,

That holdest the height of the hill:

Though ^rthou shouldest make thy ^rnest as high as the eagle,

^sI will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

¹⁷Also Edom ^tshall be ^ua desolation:

^vEvery one that goeth by it shall be astonished,

^vAnd shall ^uwhiss at all the plagues thereof.

^18xAs in ^ythe overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah

^xAnd ^zthe neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord,

^xzzNo man shall abide there,

^xNeither shall a son of man dwell in it.

^19aBehold, he shall come up ^blike a lion from ^cthe 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 ^ccwho is like me? and who will ^||appoint me the time?

And ^dwho is that shepherd ^ethat will stand before me?

²⁰Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord,

That he hath taken against Edom;

And his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of ^eeTeman:

Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:

Surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

^21fThe earth is moved at the noise of their fall,

At the cry the noise thereof was heard in the ^†Red sea.

²²Behold, ^ghe shall come up and ^gfly as the eagle,

^gAnd spread his wings over ^hBozrah:

And at that day ⁱshall the heart of the mighty men of Edom

ⁱBe as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

^23*kConcerning ^lDamascus.

^mHamath is confounded, and ⁿArpad:

For they have heard evil tidings: they are ^†fainthearted;

There is sorrow ^||on the sea; ^oit cannot be quiet.

^24lDamascus ^pis waxed feeble, and ^qturneth herself to flee,

And fear hath seized on her:

^rAnguish and sorrows have taken her, ⁱas a woman in travail.

²⁵How is ^sthe city of ^tpraise not left,

^sThe city of my joy!

^26uTherefore her young men shall fall in her streets,

^uAnd all the men of war ^vshall be cut off in that day,

Saith the Lord of hosts.

²⁷And ^wI will kindle a fire in the wall of ^lDamascus,

^xAnd it shall consume the palaces of ^yBen-hadad.

^28*zConcerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the Lord;

^aArise ye, go up to ^zKedar,

And spoil ^bthe men of the east.

^29cdeTheir tents and their flocks shall they take away:

They shall take to themselves ^detheir curtains,

And all their vessels, and ^ftheir camels;

And they shall cry unto them, ^gFear is on every side.

^30hFlee, ^†get you far off, ^hdwell 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.

^31aArise, get you up unto the ^||wealthy nation,

ⁱThat dwelleth without care, saith the Lord,

^jWhich have neither gates nor bars, ^kwhich dwell alone.

³²And their camels shall be a booty,

And the multitude of their cattle a spoil:

And ^lI 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.

³³And Hazor shall be ^ma dwelling for dragons,

And ⁿa desolation for ever:

^oThere shall no man abide there,

^oNor any son of man dwell in it.

^34*The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against ^pElam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

³⁵Thus saith the Lord of hosts;

Behold, I will break ^qthe bow of Elam,

The chief of their might.

³⁶And upon Elam will I bring the four winds

From the four quarters of heaven,

And ^lwill scatter them toward all those winds;

And there shall be no nation

Whither ^rthe outcasts of Elam shall not come.

³⁷For I will ^scause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,

And before them that seek their life:

And I will bring evil upon them,

Even ^tmy fierce anger, saith the Lord;

And ^uI will send the sword after them,

Till I have consumed them:

³⁸And ^vI will set my throne in Elam,

And will destroy from thence the king and the princes,

Saith the Lord.

³⁹But it shall come to pass ^wxin the latter days,

^wThat I will bring again the captivity of Elam,

Saith the Lord.

50^*The word that the Lord spake ^aagainst Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans ^†by Jeremiah the prophet.

²Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and ^†bset up a standard;

Publish, and conceal not:

Say, ^cBabylon is taken, ^dBel is confounded, ^eMerodach is broken in pieces;

^fHer idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

³For ^gout of the north there cometh up a nation against her,

^hWhich shall make her land desolate,

And ⁱnone shall dwell therein:

They shall remove, they shall depart, ^kboth man and beast.

⁴In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord,

The children of Israel shall come,

^lThey and the children of Judah together,

^mGoing and weeping: they shall go,

And ⁿseek the Lord their God.

^5oThey shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, ^psaying,

Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord

In ^qa perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

^6rMy people hath been ^slost sheep:

Their shepherds have caused them to go astray, ^tthey have turned them away ^uon the mountains:

^uThey have gone from mountain to hill,

They have forgotten their ^†vrestingplace.

⁷All that found them ^whave devoured them:

And ^xtheir adversaries said, ^yWe offend not,

Because they have sinned against the Lord, ^zthe habitation of justice,

Even the Lord, ^athe hope of their fathers.

^8bRemove ^cout of the midst of Babylon,

And ^cgo forth out of the land of the Chaldeans,

And be as ^dthe he goats before the flocks.

⁹For, lo, ^eI will raise and cause to come up against Babylon

^fAn assembly of great nations ^fgfrom the north country:

And ^hthey shall set themselves in array against her;

From thence she shall be taken:

ⁱTheir arrows shall be as ^kof a mighty ^||lexpert man;

^mNone shall return in vain.

¹⁰And Chaldea shall be a spoil:

All that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.

¹¹ⁿBecause ye were glad, because ye rejoiced,

O ye destroyers of ^omine heritage,

Because ye are grown ^†fat ^pas the heifer ^qat grass,

And ^||bellow as ^tbulls;

¹²Your mother shall be sore confounded;

She that bare you shall be ashamed:

Behold, the hindermost of the nations

Shall be ^ua wilderness, ^ua dry land, and ^ua desert.

¹³Because of the wrath of the Lord ^vit shall not be inhabited,

^wBut it shall be wholly desolate: ^xevery one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished,

^xAnd hiss at all her plagues.

^14yPut yourselves in array against Babylon ^zround about:

^aAll ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows:

For ^bshe hath sinned against the Lord.

^15cShout against her ^zround about:

^dShe hath given her hand:

^ddHer foundations are fallen, ^eher walls are thrown down:

^fFor it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her;

^gAs she hath done, do unto her.

¹⁶Cut off the sower from Babylon,

And him that handleth the ^||hsickle in the time of harvest:

ⁱFor fear of the oppressing sword

^kThey shall turn every one to his people,

And ^kthey shall flee every one to his own land.

¹⁷Israel is ^la scattered sheep;

^mThe lions have driven him away:

ⁿFirst the king of Assyria ⁿⁿhath devoured him;

And ^olast this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ^oohath broken his bones.

¹⁸Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will ^ppunish the king of Babylon and his land,

^qAs I have ^ppunished the king of Assyria.

¹⁹And ^rI will bring Israel again to his habitation,

And ^rhe shall feed on ^stCarmel and ^suBashan,

And his soul shall be satisfied upon ^vmount Ephraim and ^swGilead.

²⁰In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord,

^xzThe iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, ^yand there shall be none;

And the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found:

For ^zI will pardon them ^awhom I reserve.

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