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1 Of
the children of
Ammon. The LORD
says:
“Has Israel no
sons?
Has he no
heir?
Why then
does Malcam possess
Gad,
and his people
dwell in its
cities?
2 Therefore
behold, the days
come,”
says the LORD,
“that I will
cause an alarm
of war to
be heard against
Rabbah of the
children of Ammon,
and it will
become a desolate
heap,
and her daughters
will be burned
with fire;
then Israel will
possess those who
possessed him,”
says the LORD.
3 “Wail,
Heshbon, for Ai
is laid waste!
Cry, you
daughters of
Rabbah!
Clothe yourself in sackcloth.
Lament, and run
back and
forth among the fences;
for Malcam will
go into captivity,
his priests and
his princes
together.
4 Why
do you boast
in the valleys,
your flowing
valley, backsliding
daughter?
You trusted in
her treasures,
saying, ‘Who will come
to me?’
5 Behold,
I will bring
a terror on
you,”
says the Lord,
GOD of Armies,
“from all who
are around you.
All of you
will be driven
completely out,
and there will
be no one
to gather together
the fugitives.
6 “But afterward
I will reverse
the captivity of
the children of
Ammon,”
says the LORD.
7 Of Edom,
the LORD of
Armies says:
“Is wisdom no
more in Teman?
Has counsel perished
from the prudent?
Has their wisdom
vanished?
8 Flee!
Turn back!
Dwell in the
depths, inhabitants
of Dedan;
for I will
bring the calamity
of Esau on
him when I
visit him.
9 If grape
gatherers came to
you,
would they not
leave some
gleaning grapes?
If thieves came
by night,
wouldn’t they steal until they
had enough?
10 But
I have made
Esau bare,
I have uncovered
his secret places,
and he will
not be able
to hide himself.
His offspring is
destroyed,
with his brothers
and his neighbors;
and he is
no more.
11 Leave
your fatherless
children.
I will preserve
them alive.
Let your widows trust
in me.”
12 For
the LORD says: “Behold, they to whom
it didn’t pertain to
drink of the
cup will certainly
drink; and are
you he who
will altogether go
unpunished? You won’t
go unpunished, but
you will surely
drink.
13 For
I have sworn
by myself,” says
the LORD, “that
Bozrah will become
an astonishment, a
reproach, a waste,
and a curse.
All its cities
will be perpetual
wastes.”
14 I
have heard news
from the LORD,
and an ambassador
is sent among
the nations,
saying, “Gather yourselves
together!
Come against her!
Rise up to
the battle!”
15 “For,
behold, I have
made you
small among the
nations,
and despised among men.
16 As
for your terror,
the pride of
your heart has
deceived you,
O you who
dwell in the
clefts of the
rock,
who hold the
height of the
hill,
though you should
make your nest
as high as
the eagle,
I will bring
you down from
there,” says the
LORD.
17 “Edom will
become an
astonishment.
Everyone who
passes by it
will be astonished,
and will hiss
at all its
plagues.
18 As
in the overthrow
of Sodom and
Gomorrah and its
neighbor cities,” says the
LORD,
“no man will
dwell there,
neither will any
son of man
live therein.
19 “Behold,
he will come
up like a lion
from the pride
of the Jordan
against the strong
habitation;
for I will
suddenly make them
run away from
it,
and whoever
is chosen,
I will appoint
him over it.
For who is
like me?
Who will appoint
me a time?
Who is the
shepherd who will
stand before me?”
20 Therefore
hear the counsel
of the LORD,
that he has
taken against Edom,
and his purposes
that he has
purposed against
the inhabitants of
Teman:
Surely they will
drag them away,
the little ones
of the flock.
Surely he will
make their
habitation desolate
over them.
21 The earth
trembles at the
noise of their
fall;
there is a cry,
the noise which
is heard in
the Red Sea.
22 Behold,
he will come
up and fly
as the eagle,
and spread out
his wings against
Bozrah.
The heart of
the mighty men
of Edom at that
day will be
as the heart
of a woman in
her pangs.
23 Of
Damascus:
“Hamath and Arpad
are confounded,
for they have
heard evil news.
They have melted
away.
There is sorrow
on the sea.
It can’t be
quiet.
24 Damascus
has grown feeble,
she turns herself to
flee,
and trembling has
seized her.
Anguish and
sorrows have taken
hold of her,
as of a
woman in travail.
25 How is
the city of
praise not
forsaken,
the city of
my joy?
26 Therefore
her young men
will fall in
her streets,
and all the
men of war
will be brought
to silence in
that day,”
says the LORD
of Armies.
27 “I will
kindle a fire
in the wall
of Damascus,
and it will devour
the palaces of Ben Hadad.”
28 Of
Kedar, and of
the kingdoms of
Hazor, which
Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon struck,
The LORD says:
“Arise, go up
to Kedar,
and destroy the
children of the
east.
29 They
will take
their tents and
their flocks.
they will carry
away for
themselves their
curtains,
all their vessels,
and their camels;
and they will
cry to them, ‘Terror
on every side!’
30 Flee!
Wander far off!
Dwell in the
depths, you
inhabitants of
Hazor,” says the
LORD;
“for Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon
has taken counsel
against you,
and has conceived
a purpose against
you.
31 Arise!
Go up to
a nation that
is at ease,
that dwells
without care,” says
the LORD;
“that has neither
gates nor bars,
that dwells alone.
32 Their
camels will be
a booty,
and the multitude
of their livestock
a plunder.
I will scatter
to all winds
those who have
the corners of
their beards cut
off;
and I will
bring their calamity
from every side
of them,”
says the LORD.
33 Hazor
will be a
dwelling place of
jackals,
a desolation
forever.
No man will
dwell there,
neither will any
son of man
live therein.”
34 The
LORD’s word that
came to Jeremiah
the prophet
concerning Elam,
in the beginning
of the reign
of Zedekiah king
of Judah, saying,
35 “The
LORD of Armies
says:
‘Behold, I will
break the bow
of Elam,
the chief of
their might.
36 I
will bring on
Elam the four
winds from the four
quarters of the
sky,
and will scatter
them toward all
those winds.
There will be
no nation where
the outcasts of
Elam will not
come.
37 I
will cause Elam to
be dismayed before
their enemies,
and before those
who seek their
life.
I will bring
evil on them,
even my fierce
anger,’ says the
LORD;
‘and I will
send the sword
after them,
until I have
consumed them.
38 I
will set my
throne in Elam,
and will destroy
from there king
and princes,’ says
the LORD.
39 ‘But
it will happen
in the latter days
that I will
reverse the
captivity of Elam,’
says the LORD.”