Jeremiah 49 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
About the Ammonites. This is what Yahweh says: "Does Israel have no sons? Has he no heir? Then why has taken over Gad, and his people settled in its towns?"
"So listen — the days are coming," says Yahweh, "when I will sound the against of the Ammonites. She will become a desolate mound, and her surrounding villages will be set on fire. Then Israel will take back what was taken from him," says Yahweh.
Heshbon — Ai has been destroyed! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Put on beat your chests, run back and forth inside the walls, because is exile, along with his priests and officials."
"Why do you boast about your valleys — your valley flowing with abundance, you daughter? You trusted in your treasures, saying, 'Who would dare come against me?'"
"Watch — I am bringing terror on you from every direction around you," says the Lord, Yahweh, of Armies. "Each of you will be out headlong, with no one to gather the fugitives."
"But after that, I will the of the Ammonites." This is Yahweh's declaration.
About Edom. This is what Yahweh, Commander of Armies, says: "Is there no wisdom left in Teman? Has good counsel vanished from the discerning? Has their wisdom
"Turn around and run! Hide deep underground, you who live in Dedan! Because I am bringing Esau's disaster down on him — the time when I with him."
"If grape-pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave a few grapes behind? If thieves came in the night, wouldn't they only take what they wanted? But I will Esau
"I have places and he cannot conceal himself. His children, relatives, neighbors are destroyed, and he is no more."
"Leave your — I will keep them alive. Let your widows in me."
For this is what Yahweh says: "If those who didn't deserve to the had to it anyway, do you really think you'll go unpunished? You will not go unpunished. You will it."
"Because I have by says Yahweh, will become a horror, a disgrace, a ruin, and a All her towns will be permanent wastelands."
I have heard a message from Yahweh — a has been the nations: "Gather together! March against her! Rise up for war!"
"Look — I will make you small among the nations, despised among people. The terror you inspired — your own arrogance — has deceived you, you who live in the of the rock, who hold the ground. Even if you as as an eagle's, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.
The terror you inspired has deceived you — your own — you who live in the crevices of the rock, who cling to the top of the hill. Even if you build your nest as high as an eagle's, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.
"Edom will become a horror. Everyone who passes by will be stunned and will at all her wounds."
"Like the of and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns," says Yahweh, "no one will live there, no human being will settle in it."
"Watch — like a lion coming up from the of the Jordan into rich pastureland, I will suddenly chase Edom from her land. And who is the one I will appoint over her? Who is like me? Who can challenge me? What can stand in my way?"
"So hear the that Yahweh has drawn up against Edom, the purposes he has shaped against those who live in Teman: The of the will be dragged away. He will turn their pastureland into a wasteland beneath them."
At the sound of their fall the shakes. Their outcry — its echo can be heard at the
Look — he will up and down an eagle, spreading his wings over Bozrah. On that day the hearts of Edom's warriors will be the of a in
About Damascus. "Hamath and are put to shame — they have heard bad news. They are churning with anxiety, like the that be
"Damascus has weak. She has turned to run, panic has seized her. Distress and agony have gripped her like a
"How the has not been spared — the town that was my
"So her young men will fall in her public squares, and all her soldiers will be on that day," says Yahweh, Commander of Armies.
"I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the fortresses of
About and the kingdoms of which king of Babylon struck down. This is what Yahweh says: "Rise up — march against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!"
"Their tents and their flocks will be seized, their and all their gear carried off. Their camels will be taken from them, and people will shout at them: on every
"Run! Get far away! Hide deep underground, you who live in Hazor," says Yahweh. "Because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has up a against you, has shaped a strategy against you."
"Rise up — march against a nation at ease, living in security," says Yahweh. "They have no no — they all
"Their camels will become plunder, their massive herds will become spoils of war. I will to every wind those who the at their temples, and I will bring disaster on them from every direction," says Yahweh.
"Hazor will become a for jackals, a wasteland forever. No one will live there, no human being will settle in it."
The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet about at the beginning of the reign of king of Judah:
This is what Yahweh, Commander of Armies, says: "Watch — I am about to the of Elam, the of their
"I will bring against Elam from the of the sky, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will be no nation where Elam's exiles have not gone."
"I will shatter Elam in front of their enemies, in front of those who want them dead. I will bring disaster on them — my says Yahweh. "I will the them until I have finished them off."
"I will my in Elam and destroy her king and officials from there," says Yahweh.
"But in the to come, I will the of Elam," says Yahweh.