<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1019716">Jeremiah</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1020946">Chapter 49</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1020898">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1020986">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Prophecies Concerning Other Nations</em></p><p><em>Other Nations</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020947">1</a>. CONCERNING the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons?  hath he no heir?  why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020948">2</a>. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020949">3</a>. Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020950">4</a>. Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?  that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020951">5</a>. Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020952">6</a>. And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020953">7</a>. Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman?  is counsel perished from the prudent?  is their wisdom vanished?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020954">8</a>. Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020955">9</a>. If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?  if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020956">10</a>. But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020957">11</a>. Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020958">12</a>. For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished?  thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020959">13</a>. For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020960">14</a>. I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020961">15</a>. For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020962">16</a>. Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020963">17</a>. Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020964">18</a>. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020965">19</a>. Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her?  for who is like me?  and who will appoint me the time?  and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020966">20</a>. Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020967">21</a>. The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020968">22</a>. Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020969">23</a>. Concerning Damascus.  Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020970">24</a>. Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020971">25</a>. How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020972">26</a>. Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020973">27</a>. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020974">28</a>. Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020975">29</a>. Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020976">30</a>. Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020977">31</a>. Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020978">32</a>. And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020979">33</a>. And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020980">34</a>. 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,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020981">35</a>. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020982">36</a>. And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020983">37</a>. For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020984">38</a>. And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1020985">39</a>. But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.</li>
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