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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 49 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/49.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/49-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Jeremiah 49</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/48.htm" title="Jeremiah 48">◄</a> Jeremiah 49 <a href="../jeremiah/50.htm" title="Jeremiah 50">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Judgment on Ammon</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.1" class="v24_49_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said about Ammon: “Where are the men of Israel? Is there no one to defend their land? Why have they let the people who worship Molech take the territory of the tribe of Gad and settle there? </span><span class="v24_49_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.2" class="v24_49_2">2</span>But the time is coming when I will make the people of the capital city of Rabbah hear the noise of battle, and it will be left in ruins and its villages burned to the ground. Then Israel will take its land back from those who took it from them. </span><span class="v24_49_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.3" class="v24_49_3">3</span>People of Heshbon, cry out! Ai is destroyed! Women of Rabbah, go into mourning! Put on sackcloth and mourn. Run about in confusion. Your god Molech will be taken into exile, together with his priests and princes. </span><span class="v24_49_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.4" class="v24_49_4">4</span>Why do you unfaithful people boast? Your strength is failing. Why do you trust in your power and say that no one would dare attack you? </span><span class="v24_49_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.5" class="v24_49_5">5</span>I will bring terror on you from every side. You will all run away. Each one will run for his life, and there will be no one to bring your troops together again.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.6" class="v24_49_6">6</span>“But later on I will make Ammon prosperous again. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Judgment on Edom</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.7" class="v24_49_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.7!x.2" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty said about Edom: “Have the people of Edom lost their good judgment? Can their advisers no longer tell them what to do? Has all their wisdom disappeared? </span><span class="v24_49_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.8" class="v24_49_8">8</span>People of Dedan, turn and run! Hide! I am going to destroy Esau's descendants because the time has come for me to punish them. </span><span class="v24_49_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.9" class="v24_49_9">9</span>When people pick grapes, they leave a few on the vines, and when robbers come at night, they take only what they want. </span><span class="v24_49_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.10" class="v24_49_10">10</span>But I<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> have stripped Esau's descendants completely and uncovered their hiding places, so that they can no longer hide. All the people of Edom are destroyed. Not one of them is left. </span><span class="v24_49_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.11" class="v24_49_11">11</span>Leave your orphans with me, and I will take care of them. Your widows can depend on me.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.12" class="v24_49_12">12</span>“If even those who did not deserve to be punished had to drink from the cup of punishment, do you think that you will go unpunished? No, you must drink from the cup! </span><span class="v24_49_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.13" class="v24_49_13">13</span>I myself have sworn that the city of Bozrah will become a horrifying sight and a desert; people will make fun of it and use its name as a curse. All the nearby villages will be in ruins forever. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_14"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.14" class="v24_49_14">14</span>I said, “Edom, I have received a message from the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. He has sent a messenger to tell the nations to assemble their armies and to get ready to attack you. </span><span class="v24_49_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.15" class="v24_49_15">15</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is going to make you weak, and no one will respect you. </span><span class="v24_49_16"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.16" class="v24_49_16">16</span>Your pride has deceived you. No one fears you as much as you think they do. You live on the rocky cliffs, high on top of the mountain; but even though you live as high up as an eagle, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will bring you down. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has spoken.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.17" class="v24_49_17">17</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified. </span><span class="v24_49_18"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.18" class="v24_49_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The same thing will happen to Edom that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when they and the nearby towns were destroyed. No one will ever live there again. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken. </span><span class="v24_49_19"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.19" class="v24_49_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan River up to the green pasture land, I will come and make the Edomites run away suddenly from their country. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me? </span><span class="v24_49_20"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.20" class="v24_49_20">20</span>So listen to the plan that I have made against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified. </span><span class="v24_49_21"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.21" class="v24_49_21">21</span>When Edom falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake, and the cries of alarm will be heard as far away as the Gulf of Aqaba. </span><span class="v24_49_22"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.22" class="v24_49_22">22</span>The enemy will attack Bozrah like an eagle swooping down with outspread wings. On that day Edom's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Judgment on Damascus</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_23"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.23" class="v24_49_23">23</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said about Damascus: “The people in the cities of Hamath and Arpad are worried and troubled because they have heard bad news. Anxiety rolls over them like a sea, and they cannot rest. </span><span class="v24_49_24"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.24" class="v24_49_24">24</span>The people of Damascus are weak and have fled in terror. They are in pain and misery like a woman in labor. </span><span class="v24_49_25"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.25" class="v24_49_25">25</span>The famous city that used to be happy<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> is completely deserted. </span><span class="v24_49_26"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.26" class="v24_49_26">26</span>On that day her young men will be killed in the city streets, and all her soldiers destroyed. </span><span class="v24_49_27"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.27" class="v24_49_27">27</span>I will set the walls of Damascus on fire and will burn down King Benhadad's palaces. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty, have spoken.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Judgment on the Tribe of Kedar and the City of Hazor</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_28"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.28" class="v24_49_28">28</span>This is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said about the tribe of Kedar and the districts controlled by Hazor, which were conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia: “Attack the people of Kedar and destroy that tribe of eastern people! </span><span class="v24_49_29"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.29" class="v24_49_29">29</span>Seize their tents and their flocks, their tent curtains and everything in their tents. Take their camels and tell the people, ‘Terror is all around you!’</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_30"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.30" class="v24_49_30">30</span>“People of Hazor, I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, warn you to run far away and hide. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia has plotted against you, and this is what he says, </span><span class="v24_49_31"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.31" class="v24_49_31">31</span>‘Come on! We'll attack those people that feel safe and secure! Their city has no gates or locks and is completely unprotected.’</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_32"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.32" class="v24_49_32">32</span>“Take their camels and all their livestock! I will scatter in every direction those people who cut their hair short, and I will bring disaster on them from every side. </span><span class="v24_49_33"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.33" class="v24_49_33">33</span>Hazor will be made a desert forever, a place where only jackals live. No one will ever live there again. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Judgment on Elam</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_49_34"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.34" class="v24_49_34">34</span>Soon after Zedekiah became king of Judah, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty spoke to me about the country of Elam. </span><span class="v24_49_35"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.35" class="v24_49_35">35</span>He said, “I will kill all the archers who have made Elam so powerful. </span><span class="v24_49_36"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.36" class="v24_49_36">36</span>I will make winds blow against Elam from all directions, and I will scatter her people everywhere, until there is no country where her refugees have not gone. </span><span class="v24_49_37"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.37" class="v24_49_37">37</span>I will make the people of Elam afraid of their enemies, who want to kill them. In my great anger I will destroy the people of Elam and send armies against them until I have wiped them out. </span><span class="v24_49_38"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.38" class="v24_49_38">38</span>I will destroy their kings and leaders, and set up my throne there. </span><span class="v24_49_39"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.49.39" class="v24_49_39">39</span>But later on I will make the people of Elam prosperous again. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.10: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">they leave a few … they take only what they want. <char style="fv">10</char> But I; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">they leave nothing … they take everything. <char style="fv">10</char> And so I.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.25: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">happy; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">my happiness.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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