KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 49
The judgment of the Ammonites. Their restoration. The judgment of Edom, of Damascus, of Kedar, of Hazor, and of Elam.
1So says Jehovah to the sons of Ammon: Has Israel no sons? Or has he no heir? Why does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?
2So, behold, the days come, a statement of Jehovah, that I will cause a shout of war to be heard in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. And it shall be a heap, a ruin, and her daughter-villages shall be burned with fire; and Israel shall inherit his inheritance, says Jehovah.
3Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth; mourn, and run to and fro in the walls. For their king shall go into exile, his priests and his rulers together.
4Why do you glory in your valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? She trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come to me?
5Behold, I will bring a dread on you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, from all those who are around you. And you shall be driven out, each man before him. And there is none to gather up the runaways.
6And after this I will bring again the prisoners of the sons of Ammon, a statement of Jehovah.
7So says Jehovah of Hosts concerning Edom: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
8Flee, turn back, go deep to dwell, one living in Dedan. For I will bring the calamity of Esau on him in the time I will call him to account.
9If the grape gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves come by night, will they destroy their sufficiency?
10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself. His seed is devastated, also his brothers and his neighbors, and he is not.
11Leave your orphans, I will keep them alive. And let your widows trust in Me.
12For so says Jehovah: Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, drinking they drank. And freeing are you to be free from guilt? You shall not be free from guilt, but drinking you shall drink.
13For I have sworn by Myself, a statement of Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be wastes forever.
14I have heard a message from Jehovah, and a herald is sent to the nations: Gather together and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
15For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, despised among men.
16Your dreadfulness has deceived you, the pride of your heart, you who live 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, a statement of Jehovah.
17And Edom shall be a ruin, everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues.
18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and its neighbor, says Jehovah a man shall not dwell there, a son of man shall not sojourn in it.
19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of Jordan against the home of the strong. But I will suddenly made him run away from it, and who is the chosen one I shall appoint over it? For who is like Me? And who will summon Me? And who then is that shepherd who will stand before Me?
20Therefore, hear the counsel of Jehovah which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against those living in Teman: Surely they shall drag them, the least of the flock. Surely He shall make their dwellings desolate over them.
21The earth is shaken at the noise of their fall. When they cried, the noise of it was heard in the Sea of Reeds.
22Behold, he shall come up and fly like the eagle and spread his wings over Bozrah. And at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be like the heart of a woman being distressed.
23Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard bad news, they are melted; anxiety is in the sea, it is not able to be quiet.
24Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized her; anguish and pangs have taken her like one giving birth.
25How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy!
26So her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be silenced in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts.
27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus; and it shall burn up the fortresses of Ben-hadad.
28So says Jehovah concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, struck: Rise up, go up to Kedar, and devastate the sons of the east.
29They shall take their tents and their flocks. They shall take their curtains, and all their vessels, and they shall lift up their camels, to themselves. And they shall cry to them, Terror is round about!
30Flee, go far away, go deep to dwell one living in Hazor, a statement of Jehovah. For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has taken counsel against you, and has plotted a scheme against you.
31Rise up, go up to the nation at ease, who dwells securely, a statement of Jehovah; neither gates and not bars are on it, and they dwell alone.
32And their camels shall be a prize, and the multitude of their cattle a prey. And I will scatter them to all winds, those who cut the corners. And I will bring their calamity from all sides of it, a statement of Jehovah.
33And Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals, a ruin forever. No man shall live there, and not any son of man sojourn in it.
34The Word of Jehovah that was to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, saying,
35So says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold I am breaking the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
36And I will bring the four winds from the four ends of the heavens on Elam, and will scatter them toward all those winds. And there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
37And I will cause Elam to be terrified before their enemies and before those seeking their life. And I will bring an evil thing on them, the burning of My anger, a statement of Jehovah. And I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.
38And I will set My throne in Elam, and I will destroy the king and the rulers from there, a statement of Jehovah.
39But it shall happen in the latter days; I will turn back the captivity of Elam, a statement of Jehovah.
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