Jeremiah 49:32-35

Contemporary English Version

³²Then your camels
and large herds
will be yours no longer.

People of the Arabian Desert,^[a]
disaster will strike you
    from every side,
and you will be scattered
    everywhere on earth.
³³Only jackals^[b] will live
where your villages^[c] once stood.
    I, the Lord, have spoken.

What the Lord Says about Elam

^34-35Not long after Zedekiah^[d] became king of Judah, the Lord told me to say:

People of Elam,^[e]
I, the Lord All-Powerful,
will kill the archers
who make your army strong.

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Footnotes

49.32 People of the Arabian Desert: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
49.33 jackals: See the note at 9.11.
49.33 villages: See the note at 49.28.
49.34,35 Zedekiah: See the note at 1.3.
49.34,35 Elam: A nation east of Babylonia, attacked by Nebuchadnezzar about 596 b.c.