Prophecies against Ammon
1About the Ammonites,49:1 Gn 19:38; Dt 2:19; 23:3; Jdg 10:6–7; 1Sm 11:11; 12:12; 1Kg 11:5–7,33; 2Kg 24:2; Neh 2:10; Is 11:14; Jr 40:14; Ezk 21:28–32; 25:2–10; Am 1:13–15; Zph 2:8–9 this is what the Lord says:
Does Israel have no sons?
Is he without an heir?
Why then has Milcom49:1 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads Malkam49:1 = Molech dispossessed Gad49:1 1Kg 11:5,7,33; Zph 1:5
and his people settled in their cities?
this is the Lord’s declaration —
when I will make the shout of battle49:2 Jr 4:19 heard
It will become a desolate mound,
and its surrounding villages will be set on fire.
Israel will dispossess their dispossessors,
says the Lord.
cry out, daughters of Rabbah!
Clothe yourselves with sackcloth,49:3 Jr 48:37 and lament;
run back and forth within your walls,49:3 Or sheep pens
because Milcom will go into exile
together with his priests and officials.49:3 Jr 48:7
4Why do you boast about your valleys,
your flowing valley,49:4 Or about your strength, your ebbing strength
you faithless daughter —
you who trust in your treasures
and say, “Who can attack me?”
5Look, I am about to bring terror on you49:5 Jr 48:43–44 —
this is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies —
from all those around you.
You will be banished, each person headlong,
with no one to gather up the fugitives.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Prophecies against Edom
7About Edom,49:7 Gn 25:30; 32:3; 36:1; Nm 20:18–21; 24:18; Jdg 11:17–18; 2Sm 8:14; 2Kg 8:20–22; Ps 60:8; Is 34:5–8 this is what the Lord of Armies says:
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away?49:7 Ob 8–9
8Run! Turn back! Lie low,
9If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?49:9 Dt 24:21
Were thieves to come in the night,
they would destroy only what they wanted.49:9 Ob 5
10But I will strip Esau bare;
He will try to hide,49:10 Ob 3 but he will be unable.
His descendants will be destroyed
along with his relatives and neighbors.
He will exist no longer.49:10 Mal 1:3–4
11Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;
12For this is what the Lord says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not remain unpunished, for you must drink it too.
13For by myself I have sworn”49:13 Gn 22:16; 1Sm 3:14; Ps 89:3,35; Is 45:23; 54:9; Jr 22:5; 44:26 — this is the Lord’s declaration — “Bozrah49:13 = Edom’s capital will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and an example for cursing, and all its surrounding cities will become ruins forever.”49:12–13 Jr 25:28–29; Am 1:12
14I have heard an envoy from the Lord;
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
Assemble yourselves to come against her.
Rise up for war!
15I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations,
despised among humanity.
16As to the terror you cause,49:16 Lit Your horror
your arrogant heart has deceived you.
You who live in the clefts of the rock,49:16 = Petra
you who occupy the mountain summit,
though you elevate your nest like the eagles,
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.49:14–16 Ob 1–4
17“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.49:17 Dt 28:37; 2Ch 29:8; 30:7; Jr 5:30; 18:16; 19:8; 25:9,18; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12,22; 50:13; Mc 6:16; Zph 2:15
18As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,”49:18 Gn 19:24–25 says the Lord, “no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.49:18 Jr 49:33; 50:40; Zph 2:9
19“Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets49:19 Lit pride of the Jordan to the watered grazing land.49:19 Jr 50:44 I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me?49:19 Mc 7:18 Who will issue me a summons?49:19 Jb 9:19; Jr 12:5; 50:44; Zch 11:3 Who is the shepherd who can stand against me?” 49:19 2Ch 20:6; Jb 41:10
20Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman:49:20 Is 14:26; 19:12,17; 23:8; Jr 18:11; 49:30; 50:45; 51:12; Mc 2:3 The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away,49:20 Jr 15:3; 22:19 and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.49:20 Jr 9:10; 23:10; 25:30–38
21At the sound of their fall the earth will quake;49:21 Is 29:6; 64:1; Ezk 26:15; 31:16; 38:19; Mt 28:2; Rv 8:5 the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.49:18–21 Jr 50:40,44–46
22Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.49:22 Jr 48:40–41
Prophecies against Damascus
Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,49:23 2Kg 18:34
for they have heard a bad report and are agitated,
like49:23 Lit in the anxious sea that cannot be calmed.
24Damascus has become weak;
she has turned to run;
panic has gripped her.
Distress and labor pains have seized her
the town that brings me joy?
26Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares;
all the warriors will perish in that day.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.49:26 Jr 50:30
27I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;
it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels.49:27 Am 1:4
Prophecies against Kedar and Hazor
28About Kedar49:28 Gn 25:13; Ps 120:5; Is 21:16–17; 60:7; Jr 2:10; Ezk 27:21 and the kingdoms of Hazor, which King Nebuchadnezzar49:28 2Kg 24:11; 25:22; 2Ch 36:6–13 of Babylon defeated, this is what the Lord says:
Rise up, attack Kedar,
and destroy the people of the east!
29They will take their tents and their flocks
along with their tent curtains and all their equipment.
They will take their camels for themselves.
They will call out to them,
30Run! Escape quickly! Lie low,
residents of Hazor —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
has drawn up a plan against you;
he has devised a strategy against you.
31Rise up, attack a nation at ease,
one living in security.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They have no doors, not even a gate bar;
they live alone.49:31 Jdg 18:7–10; Ps 73:12; Is 47:8; Ezk 38:10–11; Zph 2:15; Zch 7:7
32Their camels will become plunder,
I will scatter them to the wind in every direction,
those who clip the hair on their temples;
I will bring calamity on them across all their borders.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
a desolation forever.
No one will live there;
Prophecies against Elam
34This is the word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam49:34 = modern Iran at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah.49:34 Jr 27:12; 28:1; 29:3
35This is what the Lord of Armies says:
I am about to shatter Elam’s bow,49:35 Is 22:6
the source49:35 Lit first of their might.
36I will bring the four winds against Elam
from the four corners of the heavens,
and I will scatter them to all these winds.
There will not be a nation
to which Elam’s banished ones will not go.
37I will devastate Elam before their enemies,
before those who intend to take their lives.
I will bring disaster on them,
my burning anger.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will send the sword after them49:37 Jr 9:16
until I finish them off.
38I will set my throne in Elam,
and I will destroy the king and officials from there.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
39Yet, in the last days,
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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