Jeremiah Chapter 49

• Jeremiah 49:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 49:2
  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?
• Jeremiah 49:3
  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 b...
• Jeremiah 49:4
  “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...
• Jeremiah 49:5
  Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’
• Jeremiah 49:6
  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...
• Jeremiah 49:7
  “But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 49:8
  Of Edom, the LORD of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
• Jeremiah 49:9
  Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.
• Jeremiah 49:10
  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?
• Jeremiah 49:11
  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 ...
• Jeremiah 49:12
  Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
• Jeremiah 49:13
  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?...
• Jeremiah 49:14
  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 perpetu...
• Jeremiah 49:15
  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 ba...
• Jeremiah 49:16
  “For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.
• Jeremiah 49:17
  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 s...
• Jeremiah 49:18
  “Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.
• Jeremiah 49:19
  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.
• Jeremiah 49:20
  “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 w...
• Jeremiah 49:21
  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...
• Jeremiah 49:22
  The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.
• Jeremiah 49:23
  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 ...
• Jeremiah 49:24
  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.
• Jeremiah 49:25
  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 trava...
• Jeremiah 49:26
  How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
• Jeremiah 49:27
  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.
• Jeremiah 49:28
  “I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”
• Jeremiah 49:29
  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 o...
• Jeremiah 49:30
  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 cr...
• Jeremiah 49:31
  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...
• Jeremiah 49:32
  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.
• Jeremiah 49:33
  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 c...
• Jeremiah 49:34
  Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.”
• Jeremiah 49:35
  The LORD’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
• Jeremiah 49:36
  “The LORD of Armies says: ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
• Jeremiah 49:37
  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...
• Jeremiah 49:38
  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 th...
• Jeremiah 49:39
  I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 49:40
  ‘But it will happen in the latter days that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says the LORD.”