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