Jeremiah 49:1-33

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Judgment on Ammon

49 Against the ^(A)Ammonites.

Thus says the Lord:

“Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then does ^[a]Milcom inherit ^(B)Gad,
And his people dwell in its cities?
²^(C)Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war
In ^(D)Rabbah of the Ammonites;
It shall be a desolate mound,
And her ^[b]villages shall be burned with fire.
Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance,” says the Lord.

³“Wail, O ^(E)Heshbon, for Ai is plundered!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah,
^(F)Gird yourselves with sackcloth!
Lament and run to and fro by the walls;
For ^[c]Milcom shall go into captivity
With his ^(G)priests and his princes together.
⁴Why ^(H)do you boast in the valleys,
^[d]Your flowing valley, O ^(I)backsliding daughter?
Who trusted in her ^(J)treasures, ^(K)saying,
‘Who will come against me?’
⁵Behold, I will bring fear upon you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts,
“From all those who are around you;
You shall be driven out, everyone headlong,
And no one will gather those who wander off.
⁶But ^(L)afterward I will bring back
The captives of the people of Ammon,” says the Lord.

Judgment on Edom

⁷^(M)Against Edom.

Thus says the Lord of hosts:

^(N)“Is wisdom no more in Teman?
^(O)Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom ^(P)vanished?
⁸Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of ^(Q)Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
The time that I will punish him.
⁹^(R)If grape-gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves by night,
Would they not destroy until they have enough?
¹⁰^(S)But I have made Esau bare;
I have uncovered his secret places,
And he shall not be able to hide himself.
His descendants are plundered,
His brethren and his neighbors,
And ^(T)he is no more.
¹¹Leave your fatherless children,
I will preserve them alive;
And let your widows trust in Me.”

¹²For thus says the Lord: “Behold, ^(U)those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it. ¹³For ^(V)I have sworn by Myself,” says the Lord, “that ^(W)Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a ^[e]waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual ^[f]wastes.”

¹⁴^(X)I have heard a message from the Lord,
And an ambassador has been sent to the nations:
“Gather together, come against her,
And rise up to battle!

¹⁵“For indeed, I will make you small among nations,
Despised among men.
¹⁶Your fierceness has deceived you,
The ^(Y)pride of your heart,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Who hold the height of the hill!
^(Z)Though you make your ^(AA)nest as high as the eagle,
^(AB)I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

¹⁷“Edom also shall be an astonishment;
^(AC)Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
And will hiss at all its plagues.
¹⁸^(AD)As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors,” says the Lord,
“No one shall remain there,
Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.

¹⁹“Behold,^(AE) he shall come up like a lion from ^(AF)the ^[g]floodplain of the Jordan
Against the dwelling place 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 ^(AG)who is like Me?
Who will arraign Me?
And ^(AH)who is that shepherd
Who will withstand Me?”

²⁰^(AI)Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Edom,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely the least of the flock shall ^[h]draw them out;
Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
²¹^(AJ)The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;
At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
²²Behold, ^(AK)He shall come up and fly like the eagle,
And spread His wings over Bozrah;
The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

Judgment on Damascus

²³^(AL)Against Damascus.

^(AM)“Hamath and Arpad are shamed,
For they have heard bad news.
They are fainthearted;
^(AN)There is ^[i]trouble on the sea;
It cannot be quiet.
²⁴Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
^(AO)Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in ^[j]labor.
²⁵Why is ^(AP)the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?
²⁶^(AQ)Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets,
And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord of hosts.
²⁷“I^(AR) will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”

Judgment on Kedar and Hazor

²⁸^(AS)Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike.

Thus says the Lord:

“Arise, go up to Kedar,
And devastate ^(AT)the men of the East!
²⁹Their ^(AU)tents and their flocks they shall take away.
They shall take for themselves their curtains,
All their vessels and their camels;
And they shall cry out to them,
^(AV)‘Fear is on every side!’

³⁰“Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Hazor!” says the Lord.
“For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,
And has conceived a plan against you.

³¹“Arise, go up to ^(AW)the wealthy nation that dwells securely,” says the Lord,
“Which has neither gates nor bars,
^(AX)Dwelling alone.
³²Their camels shall be for booty,
And the multitude of their cattle for plunder.
I will ^(AY)scatter to all winds those ^[k]in the farthest corners,
And I will bring their calamity from all its sides,” says the Lord.
³³“Hazor ^(AZ)shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forever;
No one shall reside there,
Nor son of man dwell in it.”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 49:1 Heb. Malcam, lit. their king; an Ammonite god, 1 Kin. 11:5; Molech, Lev. 18:21
Jeremiah 49:2 Lit. daughters
Jeremiah 49:3 See v. 1
Jeremiah 49:4 Lit. Your valley is flowing
Jeremiah 49:13 ruin
Jeremiah 49:13 ruins
Jeremiah 49:19 Or thicket
Jeremiah 49:20 Or drag them away
Jeremiah 49:23 anxiety
Jeremiah 49:24 childbirth
Jeremiah 49:32 Lit. cut off at the corner, Jer. 9:26; 25:23

2 Kings 24:5-7

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⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ⁶^(A)So Jehoiakim rested with his fathers. Then Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

⁷And ^(B)the king of Egypt did not come out of his land anymore, for ^(C)the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates.

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2 Chronicles 36:6-8

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⁶^(A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in ^[a]bronze fetters to ^(B)carry him off to Babylon. ⁷^(C)Nebuchadnezzar also carried off some of the articles from the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. ⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. Then ^[b]Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

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2 Chronicles 36:6 chains
2 Chronicles 36:8 Or Jeconiah

2 Kings 24:8-9

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The Reign and Captivity of Jehoiachin^(A)

⁸^(B)Jehoiachin^[a] was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. ⁹And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.

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2 Kings 24:8 Jeconiah, 1 Chr. 3:16; Jer. 24:1; or Coniah, Jer. 22:24, 28

2 Chronicles 36:9

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The Reign and Captivity of Jehoiachin^(A)

⁹^(B)Jehoiachin was ^[a]eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 36:9 Heb. mss., LXX, Syr. eighteen and 2 Kin. 24:8

2 Chronicles 36:9 in all English translations

Jeremiah 22:24-23:32

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Message to Coniah

²⁴“As I live,” says the Lord, ^(A)“though ^[a]Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, ^(B)were the ^[b]signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off; ²⁵^(C)and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear—the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the ^[c]Chaldeans. ²⁶^(D)So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die. ²⁷But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.

²⁸“Is this man ^[d]Coniah a despised, broken idol—
^(E)A vessel in which is no pleasure?
Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know?
²⁹^(F)O earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!
³⁰Thus says the Lord:
‘Write this man down as ^(G)childless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For ^(H)none of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”

The Branch of Righteousness

23 “Woe ^(I)to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” says the Lord. ²Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: “You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. ^(J)Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,” says the Lord. ³“But ^(K)I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. ⁴I will set up ^(L)shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking,” says the Lord.

⁵“Behold, ^(M)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King shall reign and ^[e]prosper,
^(N)And execute ^[f]judgment and righteousness in the ^[g]earth.
⁶^(O)In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel ^(P)will dwell safely;
Now ^(Q)this is His name by which He will be called:

^[h]THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

⁷“Therefore, behold, ^(R)the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ ⁸but, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country ^(S)and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own ^(T)land.”

False Prophets and Empty Oracles

⁹My heart within me is broken
Because of the prophets;
^(U)All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the Lord,
And because of His holy words.
¹⁰For ^(V)the land is full of adulterers;
For ^(W)because of a curse the land mourns.
^(X)The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course of life is evil,
And their might is not right.

¹¹“For ^(Y)both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, ^(Z)in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.
¹²“Therefore^(AA) their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I ^(AB)will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
¹³“And I have seen ^[i]folly in the prophets of Samaria:
^(AC)They prophesied by Baal
And ^(AD)caused My people Israel to err.
¹⁴Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
^(AE)They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also ^(AF)strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like ^(AG)Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

¹⁵“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:

‘Behold, I will feed them with ^(AH)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
^[j]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”

¹⁶Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
^(AI)They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.
¹⁷They continually say to those who despise Me,
‘The Lord has said, ^(AJ)“You shall have peace” ’;
And to everyone who ^(AK)walks according to the ^[k]dictates of his own heart, they say,
^(AL)‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”

¹⁸For ^(AM)who has stood in the counsel of the Lord,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it?
¹⁹Behold, a ^(AN)whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury—
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
²⁰The ^(AO)anger of the Lord will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
^(AP)In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.

²¹“I^(AQ) have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
²²But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have ^(AR)turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.

²³“Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God afar off?
²⁴Can anyone ^(AS)hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the Lord;
^(AT)“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.

²⁵“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ ²⁶How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, ²⁷who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, ^(AU)as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.

²⁸“The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord.
²⁹“Is not My word like a ^(AV)fire?” says the Lord,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

³⁰“Therefore behold, ^(AW)I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor. ³¹Behold, I am ^(AX)against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’ ³²Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the Lord, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their ^(AY)lies and by ^(AZ)their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not ^(BA)profit this people at all,” says the Lord.