[1] Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he
no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the
cities of it? [2] Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I
will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of
Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be
burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess him, says
Yahweh. [3] Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the
fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes
together. [4] Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley,
backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall
come to me? [5] Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh
of Hosts, from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven out
every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the
fugitives. [6] But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the
children of Ammon, says Yahweh. [7] Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Is
wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their
wisdom vanished? [8] Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants
of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I
shall visit him. [9] If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave
some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn`t they destroy until they
had enough? [10] But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret
places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed,
and his brothers, 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 Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn`t pertain to
drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and are you he who shall altogether
go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.
[13] For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an
astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities of it
shall be perpetual wastes. [14] I have heard news from Yahweh, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together,
and come against her, and rise up to the battle. [15] For, behold, I have
made you small among the nations, and despised among men. [16] As for your
terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell 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, says
Yahweh. [17] Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it. [18] As in
the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says
Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn
therein. [19] Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the
Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run
away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is
like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will
stand before me? [20] Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has
taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little
ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over
them. [21] The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry,
the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea. [22] Behold, he shall come up
and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the
heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a
woman in her pangs. [23] Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for
they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the
sea; it can`t be quiet. [24] Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself
to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken
hold of her, as of a woman in travail. [25] How is the city of praise not
forsaken, the city of my joy? [26] Therefore her young men shall fall in
her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that
day, says Yahweh of Hosts. [27] I will kindle a fire in the wall of
Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. [28] Of Kedar, and
of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus
says Yahweh: Arise you, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the
east. [29] Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry
away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side! [30] Flee you,
wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh;
for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has
conceived a purpose against you. [31] Arise, get you up to a nation that is
at ease, that dwells without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor
bars, that dwell alone. [32] Their camels shall be a booty, and the
multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those
who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their
calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh. [33] Hazor shall be a
dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there,
neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. [34] The word of Yahweh that
came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign
of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, [35] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Behold,
I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. [36] On Elam will I
bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter
them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the
outcasts of Elam shall not come. [37] I will cause Elam to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will
bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them, until I have consumed them; [38] and I will set my throne
in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says Yahweh. [39]
But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the
captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.

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