Berean Standard Bible

Jeremiah 49:1-28

1Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says:

“Has Israel no sons?Is he without heir?Why then has Milcom1 taken possession of Gad?Why have his people settled in their cities?2Therefore, behold, the days are coming,declares the LORD,when I will sound the battle cryagainst Rabbah of the Ammonites.It will become a heap of ruins,and its villages will be burned.Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors,says the LORD.3Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed;cry out, O daughters of Rabbah!Put on sackcloth and mourn;run back and forth within your walls,for Milcom will go into exiletogether with his priests and officials.4Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful,2O faithless daughter?You trust in your riches and say,‘Who can come against me?’

5Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you,declares the Lord GOD of Hosts,from all those around you.You will each be driven headlong,with no one to regather the fugitives.6Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,3”declares the LORD.

7Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says:

“Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?Has counsel perished from the prudent?Has their wisdom decayed?8Turn and run!Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan,for I will bring disaster on Esauat the time I punish him.

9If grape gatherers came to you,would they not leave some gleanings?Were thieves to come in the night,would they not steal only what they wanted?10But I will strip Esau bare;I will uncover his hiding places,and he will be unable to conceal himself.His descendants will be destroyedalong with his relatives and neighbors,and he will be no more.

11Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives.Let your widows trust in Me.”

12For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too. 13For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

14I have heard a message from the LORD;an envoy has been sent to the nations:“Assemble yourselves to march against her!Rise up for battle!”

15“For behold, I will make you small among nations,despised among men.16The terror you causeand the pride of your hearthave deceived you,O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks,4O occupiers of the mountain summit.Though you elevate your nest like the eagle,even from there I will bring you down,”declares the LORD.17“Edom will become an object of horror.All who pass by will be appalledand will scoff at all her wounds.18As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrownalong with their neighbors,”says the LORD,“no one will dwell there;no man will abide there.19Behold, one will come up like a lionfrom the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture.For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land.Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this?For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me?What shepherd can stand against Me?”

20Therefore hear the plansthat the LORD has drawn up against Edomand the strategies He has devisedagainst the people of Teman:Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away;certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.521At the sound of their fall the earth will quake;their cry will resound to the Red Sea.622Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down,spreading its wings over Bozrah.In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty menwill be like the heart of a woman in labor.

23Concerning Damascus:

“Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,for they have heard a bad report;they are agitated like the sea;7their anxiety cannot be calmed.24Damascus has become feeble;she has turned to flee.Panic has gripped her;anguish and pain have seized herlike a woman in labor.

25How is the city of praise not forsaken,the town that brings Me joy?26For her young men will fall in the streets,and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,”declares the LORD of Hosts.27“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus;it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

28Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says:

“Rise up, advance against Kedar,and destroy the people of the east!

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 49:1 Or their king; Milcom is a variant of Molech; also in verse 3; see Leviticus 18:21 and 1 Kings 11:7. ↩
2. Jeremiah 49:4 Or your valleys flowing ↩
3. Jeremiah 49:6 Or restore the fortunes of the Ammonites ↩
4. Jeremiah 49:16 Or of Sela ↩
5. Jeremiah 49:20 Or their pasture will be appalled at their fate ↩
6. Jeremiah 49:21 Or the Sea of Reeds ↩
7. Jeremiah 49:23 Hebrew on the sea or by the sea ↩

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