Jeremiah 49:1–22

||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?

2  Therefore, 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.

3  Howl, 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.

4  Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys,

||Thy flowing valley, lO backsliding daughter?

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

5  Behold, 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.

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

7  sConcerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts;

tIs wisdom no more in uTeman?

vIs counsel perished from the prudent?

Is their wisdom vanished?

8  wFlee 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.

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

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

10  But 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.

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

And let thy widows trust in me.

12  For 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.

13  For 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.

14  nI 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.

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

And despised among men.

16  Thy 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.

17  Also Edom tshall be ua desolation:

vEvery one that goeth by it shall be astonished,

vAnd shall uwhiss at all the plagues thereof.

18  xAs 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.

19  aBehold, 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?

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 eeTeman:

Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:

Surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

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

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

22  Behold, 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.