Jeremiah 49

1Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?Cross-references: Gen 19:38 · Deut 2:19 · Deut 23:3 · Judg 10:7 · Judg 11:13 · 1Sam 11:1 · +20 more

2Therefore 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 will become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burned with fire; then Israel will possess those who possessed him,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Num 21:25 · Deut 3:11 · Josh 13:24 · 2Sam 11:1 · 2Sam 12:27 · Ps 48:11 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Josh 8:28 · 1Ki 11:5 · 1Ki 11:33 · 2Ki 23:13 · Job 30:3 · Isa 13:6 · +18 more

4Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’Cross-references: Ps 49:6 · Ps 52:7 · Ps 62:10 · Prov 10:15 · Isa 28:1 · Isa 47:7 · +11 more

5Behold, I will bring a terror on you,” says the Lord, Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Josh 2:9 · 2Ki 7:6 · 2Ki 19:7 · Job 15:21 · Prov 28:1 · Isa 16:3 · +7 more

6“But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Isa 19:18 · Isa 23:18 · Jer 46:26 · Jer 48:47 · Jer 49:39 · Ezek 16:53

7Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?Cross-references: Gen 25:30 · Gen 27:41 · Gen 36:8 · Gen 36:11 · Gen 36:15 · Gen 36:34 · +26 more

8Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.Cross-references: Judg 6:2 · 1Sam 13:6 · Isa 2:21 · Isa 21:13 · Jer 6:1 · Jer 25:23 · +12 more

9If 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?Cross-references: Isa 17:6 · Obad 1:5

10But 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.Cross-references: Ps 37:28 · Ps 37:35 · Isa 14:20 · Isa 17:14 · Isa 45:3 · Jer 23:24 · +4 more

11Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”Cross-references: Deut 10:18 · Ps 10:14 · Ps 68:5 · Ps 82:3 · Ps 146:9 · Prov 23:10 · +5 more

12For Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Prov 17:5 · Jer 25:15 · Jer 25:28 · Jer 30:11 · Jer 46:27 · Lam 4:21 · +2 more

13For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”Cross-references: Gen 22:16 · Gen 36:33 · Isa 34:6 · Isa 34:9 · Isa 45:23 · Isa 63:1 · +10 more

14I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Gather yourselves together! Come against her! Rise up to the battle!”Cross-references: Isa 13:2 · Isa 18:2 · Isa 30:4 · Isa 37:7 · Jer 50:9 · Jer 51:11 · +5 more

15“For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:7 · 1Sam 2:30 · Ps 53:5 · Obad 1:2 · Mic 7:10 · Luke 1:51

16As 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.Cross-references: Job 39:27 · Prov 16:18 · Prov 18:21 · Prov 29:23 · Song 2:14 · Isa 2:21 · +7 more

17“Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 7:20 · Isa 34:9 · Jer 18:16 · Jer 49:13 · Jer 50:13 · +7 more

18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Deut 29:23 · Job 18:15 · Ps 11:6 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 34:10 · +7 more

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?”Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · Josh 3:15 · 1Chr 12:15 · Job 9:19 · Job 9:21 · Job 23:3 · +16 more

20Therefore 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 will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.Cross-references: Job 6:19 · Ps 33:11 · Prov 19:21 · Isa 14:24 · Isa 46:10 · Jer 37:10 · +9 more

21The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.Cross-references: Isa 14:4 · Jer 50:46 · Ezek 21:16 · Ezek 26:15 · Ezek 32:10 · Rev 18:10

22Behold, 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Ps 18:5 · Isa 13:8 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 26:17 · Jer 4:13 · +10 more

23Of 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.Cross-references: Gen 14:15 · Gen 15:2 · Num 13:21 · Deut 20:8 · Josh 2:11 · Josh 14:8 · +23 more

24Damascus 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.

25How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?Cross-references: Ps 37:35 · Isa 1:26 · Isa 14:4 · Jer 33:9 · Jer 48:2 · Jer 48:39 · +4 more

26Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Jer 9:21 · Jer 11:22 · Jer 50:30 · Jer 51:3 · Lam 2:21 · Ezek 27:27 · +1 more

27“I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”Cross-references: 1Ki 15:18 · 1Ki 20:1 · 2Ki 13:3 · 2Ki 13:5 · Jer 43:12 · Amos 1:3

28Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, Yahweh says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.Cross-references: Gen 25:6 · Gen 25:13 · Judg 6:3 · 1Chr 1:29 · Job 1:3 · Song 1:5 · +11 more

29They 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!’Cross-references: Gen 37:25 · Judg 6:5 · Judg 7:12 · Judg 8:21 · Judg 8:26 · 1Chr 5:20 · +14 more

30Flee! Wander far off! Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor,” says Yahweh; “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.Cross-references: Isa 10:7 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 25:24 · Jer 27:6

31Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care,” says Yahweh; “that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone.Cross-references: Num 23:9 · Deut 33:28 · Judg 18:7 · Judg 18:27 · Ps 123:4 · Isa 32:9 · +9 more

32Their 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 Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 28:64 · Jer 9:26 · Jer 25:23 · Jer 49:36 · Ezek 5:10 · Ezek 5:12 · +1 more

33Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.”Cross-references: Isa 13:20 · Isa 14:23 · Isa 34:9 · Jer 9:11 · Jer 10:22 · Jer 49:17 · +7 more

34Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,Cross-references: Gen 10:22 · Gen 14:1 · 2Ki 24:17 · Ezra 4:9 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 21:2 · +4 more

35“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.Cross-references: Ps 46:9 · Isa 22:6 · Jer 50:14 · Jer 50:29 · Jer 51:56

36I 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:64 · Ps 147:2 · Isa 11:12 · Isa 16:3 · Isa 27:13 · +11 more

37I 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 Yahweh; ‘and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Ps 48:4 · Jer 9:16 · Jer 30:24 · Jer 34:20 · Jer 48:2 · +10 more

38I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says Yahweh.Cross-references: Jer 43:10 · Dan 7:9

39‘But it will happen in the latter days that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says Yahweh.”Cross-references: Job 42:10 · Isa 2:2 · Jer 48:47 · Jer 49:6 · Ezek 16:53 · Ezek 29:14 · +7 more