Jeremiah Chapter 49
49:1 | Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath ![]() ![]() |
49:2 | Therefore, behold, the ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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. |
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 ![]() |
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 ![]() |
49:12 | For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment [was] not to ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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 ![]() |
49:22 | Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that ![]() |
49:23 | Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard ![]() |
49:24 | Damascus is ![]() |
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 ![]() |
49:27 | And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad. |
49:28 | Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar ![]() ![]() |
49:29 | Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their ![]() |
49:30 | Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
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. |
49:34 | The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
49:38 | And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the ![]() |
49:39 | But it shall come to pass in the latter ![]() |