# Jeremiah 49 (New King James Version) Judgment on Ammon ##### Chapter 49 ###### 1 Against the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why _then_ does Milcom inherit Gad, And his people dwell in its cities? ###### 2 Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war In Rabbah of the Ammonites; It shall be a desolate mound, And her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance," says the Lord. ###### 3 "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is plundered! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah, Gird yourselves with sackcloth! Lament and run to and fro by the walls; For Milcom shall go into captivity With his priests and his princes together. ###### 4 Why do you boast in the valleys, Your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, _saying,_ 'Who will come against me?' ###### 5 Behold, I will bring fear upon you," Says the Lord God of hosts, "From all those who are around you; You shall be driven out, everyone headlong, And no one will gather those who wander off. ###### 6 But afterward I will bring back The captives of the people of Ammon," says the Lord.Judgment on Edom ###### 7 Against Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: "_Is_ wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? ###### 8 Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, The time _that_ I will punish him. ###### 9 If grape-gatherers came to you, Would they not leave _some_ gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, Would they not destroy until they have enough? ###### 10 But I have made Esau bare; I have uncovered his secret places, And he shall not be able to hide himself. His descendants are plundered, His brethren and his neighbors, And he _is_ no more. ###### 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve _them_ alive; And let your widows trust in Me." ###### 12 For thus says the Lord: "Behold, those whose judgment _was_ not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And _are_ you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink _of it._ ###### 13 For I have sworn by Myself," says the Lord, "that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes." ###### 14 I have heard a message from the Lord, And an ambassador has been sent to the nations: "Gather together, come against her, And rise up to battle! ###### 15 "For indeed, I will make you small among nations, Despised among men. ###### 16 Your fierceness has deceived you, The pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Who hold the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there," says the Lord. ###### 17 "Edom also shall be an astonishment; Everyone who goes by it will be astonished And will hiss at all its plagues. ###### 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the Lord, "No one shall remain there, Nor shall a son of man dwell in it. ###### 19 "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place 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? Who will arraign Me? And who _is_ that shepherd Who will withstand Me?" ###### 20 Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Edom, And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them. ###### 21 The earth shakes at the noise of their fall; At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea. ###### 22 Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle, And spread His wings over Bozrah; The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.Judgment on Damascus ###### 23 Against Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are shamed, For they have heard bad news. They are fainthearted; _There is_ trouble on the sea; It cannot be quiet. ###### 24 Damascus has grown feeble; She turns to flee, And fear has seized _her._ Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor. ###### 25 Why is the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy? ###### 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the Lord of hosts. ###### 27 "I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad."Judgment on Kedar and Hazor ###### 28 Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike. Thus says the Lord: "Arise, go up to Kedar, And devastate the men of the East! ###### 29 Their tents and their flocks they shall take away. They shall take for themselves their curtains, All their vessels and their camels; And they shall cry out to them, 'Fear _is_ on every side!' ###### 30 "Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor!" says the Lord. "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, And has conceived a plan against you. ###### 31 "Arise, go up to the wealthy nation that dwells securely," says the Lord, "Which has neither gates nor bars, Dwelling alone. ###### 32 Their camels shall be for booty, And the multitude of their cattle for plunder. I will scatter to all winds those in the farthest corners, And I will bring their calamity from all its sides," says the Lord. ###### 33 "Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forever; No one shall reside there, Nor son of man dwell in it."Judgment on Elam ###### 34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, ###### 35 "Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, The foremost of their might. ###### 36 Against Elam I will bring the four winds From the four quarters of heaven, And scatter them toward all those winds; There shall be no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go. ###### 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies And before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, My fierce anger,' says the Lord; 'And I will send the sword after them Until I have consumed them. ###### 38 I will set My throne in Elam, And will destroy from there the king and the princes,' says the Lord. ###### 39 'But it shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring back the captives of Elam,' says the Lord."