Jeremiah 49:1-6
Lexham English Bible
A Message Concerning Ammon
49 Concerning the Ammonites:[a] Thus says Yahweh,
“Are there no sons for Israel?
Or is there no heir for him?
Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad,
and his people dwelled in its towns?
2 Therefore[b] look, days are coming,” declares[c] Yahweh,
“and I will sound against Rabbah, the Ammonites,[d]
the alarm of the war,
and it will become as a mound of desolation,
and its daughters will burn in the fire.
Then Israel will dispossess his dispossessors,” says Yahweh.
3 “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated.
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth.
Lament and run back and forth among the walls.
For Milcom will go into exile,
his priests and his officials together.
4 Why do you boast in your valleys?
Your valleys[e] are ebbing.
O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures,
who said, ‘Who will come against me?’
5 Look, I am going to bring dread on you,”
declares[f] Lord Yahweh of hosts,
“from all your surrounding neighbors.
And you will be scattered,
each one before it,[g]
and there is no one who gathers the fugitives.[h]
6 Yet afterward[i] I will restore
the fortunes[j] of the Ammonites,”[k] declares[l] Yahweh.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 49:1 Literally “sons of Ammon”
- Jeremiah 49:2 Literally “To thus”
- Jeremiah 49:2 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 49:2 Literally “sons of Ammon”
- Jeremiah 49:4 Hebrew “valley”
- Jeremiah 49:5 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 49:5 Literally “to the face of it”
- Jeremiah 49:5 Hebrew “fugitive”
- Jeremiah 49:6 Literally “after thus”
- Jeremiah 49:6 Hebrew “fortune”
- Jeremiah 49:6 Literally “sons of Ammon”
- Jeremiah 49:6 Literally “a declaration of”
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