English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 49, verse 24 in Web Version

Jeremiah 49 : 1 (WEB)

Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities of it?

Jeremiah 49 : 2 (WEB)

Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess him, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49 : 3 (WEB)

Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 49 : 4 (WEB)

Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come to me?

Jeremiah 49 : 5 (WEB)

Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives.

Jeremiah 49 : 6 (WEB)

But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49 : 7 (WEB)

Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 49 : 8 (WEB)

Flee you , turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.

Jeremiah 49 : 9 (WEB)

If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough?

Jeremiah 49 : 10 (WEB)

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.

Jeremiah 49 : 11 (WEB)

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

Jeremiah 49 : 12 (WEB)

For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.

Jeremiah 49 : 13 (WEB)

For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes.

Jeremiah 49 : 14 (WEB)

I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

Jeremiah 49 : 15 (WEB)

For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

Jeremiah 49 : 16 (WEB)

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 Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49 : 17 (WEB)

Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.

Jeremiah 49 : 18 (WEB)

As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

Jeremiah 49 : 19 (WEB)

Behold, he shall 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, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

Jeremiah 49 : 20 (WEB)

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

Jeremiah 49 : 21 (WEB)

The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

Jeremiah 49 : 22 (WEB)

Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 49 : 23 (WEB)

Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.

Jeremiah 49 : 24 (WEB)

Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 49 : 25 (WEB)

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

Jeremiah 49 : 26 (WEB)

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts.

Jeremiah 49 : 27 (WEB)

I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.

Jeremiah 49 : 28 (WEB)

Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you , go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.

Jeremiah 49 : 29 (WEB)

Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!

Jeremiah 49 : 30 (WEB)

Flee you , wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.

Jeremiah 49 : 31 (WEB)

Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.

Jeremiah 49 : 32 (WEB)

Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their hair cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49 : 33 (WEB)

Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

Jeremiah 49 : 34 (WEB)

The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 49 : 35 (WEB)

Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

Jeremiah 49 : 36 (WEB)

On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

Jeremiah 49 : 37 (WEB)

I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;

Jeremiah 49 : 38 (WEB)

and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49 : 39 (WEB)

But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.