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Jeremiah 49
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You’re a Broken-Down Has-Been

49GOD's Message on the Ammonites: "Doesn't Israel have any children, no one to step into her inheritance? So why is the god Milcom taking over Gad's land, his followers moving into its towns?H1121H5983H559H3068H3478H1121H3423H4428H3423H1410H5971H3427H5892 2But not for long! The time's coming" —GOD's Decree— "When I'll fill the ears of Rabbah, Ammon's big city, with battle cries. She'll end up a pile of rubble, all her towns burned to the ground. Then Israel will kick out the invaders. I, GOD, say so, and it will be so.H3117H935H559H3068H8643H4421H8085H7237H1121H5983H8077H8510H1323H3341H784H3478H3423H3423H5002H3068 3Wail Heshbon, Ai is in ruins. Villages of Rabbah, wring your hands! Dress in mourning, weep buckets of tears. Go into hysterics, run around in circles! Your god Milcom will be hauled off to exile, and all his priests and managers right with him.H3213H2809H5857H7703H6817H1323H7237H2296H8242H5594H7751H1448H4428H3212H1473H3548H8269H3162 4Why do you brag of your once-famous strength? You're a broken-down has-been, a castoff Who fondles his trophies and dreams of glory days and vainly thinks, 'No one can lay a hand on me.'H1984H6010H2100H6010H7728H1323H982H214H935 5Well, think again. I'll face you with terror from all sides." Word of the Master, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies. "You'll be stampeded headlong, with no one to round up the runaways.H935H6343H5002H136H3069H6635H5439H5080H376H6440H6908H5074 6Still, the time will come when I will make things right with Ammon." GOD's Decree.H310H7725H7622H1121H5983H5002H3068

Strutting Across the Stage of History

7The Message of GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies on Edom: "Is there nobody wise left in famous Teman? no one with a sense of reality? Has their wisdom gone wormy and rotten?H123H559H3068H6635H2451H8487H6098H6H995H2451H5628 8Run for your lives! Get out while you can! Find a good place to hide, you who live in Dedan! I'm bringing doom to Esau. It's time to settle accounts.H5127H6437H3427H6009H3427H1719H935H343H6215H6256H6485 9When harvesters work your fields, don't they leave gleanings? When burglars break into your house, don't they take only what they want?H1219H935H7604H5955H1590H3915H7843H1767 10But I'll strip Esau clean. I'll search out every nook and cranny. I'll destroy everything connected with him, children and relatives and neighbors. There'll be no one left who will be able to say,H6215H2834H1540H4565H3201H2247H2233H7703H251H7934 11'I'll take care of your orphans. Your widows can depend on me.'"H5800H3490H2421H490H982 12Indeed. GOD says, "I tell you, if there are people who have to drink the cup of God's wrath even though they don't deserve it, why would you think you'd get off? You won't get off. You'll drink it. Oh yes, you'll drink every drop.H559H3068H4941H8354H3563H8354H8354H5352H5352H5352H8354H8354 13And as for Bozrah, your capital, I swear by all that I am"—GOD's Decree—"that that city will end up a pile of charred ruins, a stinking garbage dump, an obscenity—and all her daughter-cities with her."H7650H5002H3068H1224H8047H2781H2721H7045H5892H5769H2723 14I've just heard the latest from GOD. He's sent an envoy to the nations: "Muster your troops and attack Edom. Present arms! Go to war!"H8085H8052H3068H6735H7971H1471H6908H935H6965H4421 15"Ah, Edom, I'm dropping you to last place among nations, the bottom of the heap, kicked around.H5414H6996H1471H959H120 16You think you're so great— strutting across the stage of history, Living high in the impregnable rocks, acting like king of the mountain. You think you're above it all, don't you, like an eagle in its aerie? Well, you're headed for a fall. I'll bring you crashing to the ground." GOD's Decree.H8606H5377H2087H3820H7931H2288H5553H8610H4791H1389H7064H1361H5404H3381H5002H3068 17"Edom will end up trash. Stinking, despicable trash. A wonder of the world in reverse.H123H8047H5674H8074H8319H4347 18She'll join Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors in the sewers of history." GOD says so. "No one will live there, no mortal soul move in there.H4114H5467H6017H7934H559H3068H376H3427H1121H120H1481 19"Watch this: Like a lion coming up from the thick jungle of the Jordan Looking for prey in the mountain pastures, I will come upon Edom and pounce. I'll take my pick of the flock—and who's to stop me? The shepherds of Edom are helpless before me."H5927H738H1347H3383H5116H386H7280H7323H977H6485H3259H7462H5975H6440 20So, listen to this plan that GOD has worked out against Edom, the blueprint of what he's prepared for those who live in Teman: "Believe it or not, the young, the vulnerable— mere lambs and kids—will be dragged off. Believe it or not, the flock in shock, helpless to help, will watch it happen.H8085H6098H3068H3289H123H4284H2803H3427H8487H6810H6629H5498H5116H8074 21The very earth will shudder because of their cries, cries of anguish heard at the distant Red Sea.H776H7493H6963H5307H6818H6963H8085H5488H3220 22Look! An eagle soars, swoops down, spreads its wings over Bozrah. Brave warriors will double up in pain, helpless to fight, like a woman giving birth to a baby."H5927H1675H5404H6566H3671H1224H3117H3820H1368H123H3820H802H6887

The Blood Will Drain from the Face of Damascus

23The Message on Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad will be in shock when they hear the bad news. Their hearts will melt in fear as they pace back and forth in worry.H1834H2574H954H774H8085H7451H8052H4127H1674H3220H3201H8252 24The blood will drain from the face of Damascus as she turns to flee. Hysterical, she'll fall to pieces, disabled, like a woman in childbirth.H1834H7503H6437H5127H7374H2388H6869H2256H270H3205 25And now how lonely—bereft, abandoned! The once famous city, the once happy city.H5892H8416H5800H7151H4885 26Her bright young men dead in the streets, her brave warriors silent as death. On that day"—Decree of GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies—H970H5307H7339H582H4421H1826H3117H5002H3068H6635 27"I'll start a fire at the wall of Damascus that will burn down all of Ben-hadad's forts."H3341H784H2346H1834H398H759H1130

Find a Safe Place to Hide

28The Message on Kedar and the sheikdoms of Hazor who were attacked by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. This is GOD's Message: "On your feet! Attack Kedar! Plunder the Bedouin nomads from the east.H6938H4467H2674H5019H4428H894H5221H559H3068H6965H5927H6938H7703H1121H6924 29Grab their blankets and pots and pans. Steal their camels. Traumatize them, shouting, 'Terror! Death! Doom! Danger everywhere!'H168H6629H3947H5375H3407H3627H1581H7121H4032H5439 30Oh, run for your lives, You nomads from Hazor." GOD's Decree. "Find a safe place to hide. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has plans to wipe you out, to go after you with a vengeance:H5127H5110H3966H3427H6009H3427H2674H5002H3068H5019H4428H894H6098H3289H2803H4284 31'After them,' he says. 'Go after these relaxed nomads who live free and easy in the desert, Who live in the open with no doors to lock, who live off by themselves.'H6965H5927H7961H1471H3427H983H5002H3068H1817H1280H7931H910 32Their camels are there for the taking, their herds and flocks, easy picking. I'll scatter them to the four winds, these defenseless nomads on the fringes of the desert. I'll bring terror from every direction. They won't know what hit them." GOD's Decree.H1581H957H1995H4735H7998H2219H7307H7112H6285H935H343H5676H5002H3068 33"Jackals will take over the camps of Hazor, camps abandoned to wind and sand. No one will live there, no mortal soul move in there."H2674H4583H8577H8077H5704H5769H376H3427H1121H120H1481

The Winds Will Blow Away Elam

34GOD's Message to the prophet Jeremiah on Elam at the outset of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.H1697H3068H3414H5030H5867H7225H4438H6667H4428H3063H559 35This is what GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies says: "Watch this! I'll break Elam's bow, her weapon of choice, across my knee.H559H3068H6635H7665H7198H5867H7225H1369 36Then I'll let four winds loose on Elam, winds from the four corners of earth. I'll blow them away in all directions, landing homeless Elamites in every country on earth.H5867H935H702H7307H702H7098H8064H2219H7307H1471H5080H5867H5769H935 37They'll live in constant fear and terror among enemies who want to kill them. I'll bring doom on them, my anger-fueled doom. I'll set murderous hounds on their heels until there's nothing left of them.H5867H2865H6440H341H6440H1245H5315H935H7451H2740H639H5002H3068H7971H2719H310H3615 38And then I'll set up my throne in Elam, having thrown out the king and his henchmen.H7760H3678H5867H6H4428H8269H5002H3068 39But the time will come when I make everything right for Elam again." GOD's Decree.H319H3117H7725H7725H7622H7622H5867H5002H3068


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