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you in Rabbah,your capital city.It will be left in ruins,and the surrounding villageswill lie in ashes.You took some of Israel's land,but on that dayIsrael will take yours!3Cry, people of Heshbon;<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> your town will becomea pile of rubble.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.3!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> You will turn here and there,but your path will be blocked.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.3!f.3" class="notelink f-link">+</a> Put on sackcloth<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.3!f.4" class="notelink f-link">+</a> and mourn,you citizens of Rabbah,because the idol you worship<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.3!f.5" class="notelink f-link">+</a> will be takento a foreign country,along with its priestsand temple officials.4You rebellious Ammonitestrust your wealth and ask,“Who could attack us?”But I warn you not to boastwhen your strength is fading.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 5I, the Lord All-Powerful,will send neighboring nationsto strike you with terror.You will be scattered,with no one to carefor your refugees.6Yet someday, I will bringyour people back home.I, the Lord, have spoken.<h3 class="s1">What the Lord Says about Edom</h3>7<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.7!x.2" class="notelink x-link"></a> The Lord All-Powerful says about Edom:Wisdom and common sensehave vanished from Teman.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.7!f.3" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 8I will send disaster to punishyou descendants of Esau,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> so anyone from Dedan<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.8!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> had better turn aroundand run back home.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.8!f.3" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 9People who harvest grapesleave some for the poor.Thieves who break in at nighttake only what they want.10But I will take everythingthat belongs to you,people of Edom,and I will uncover every placewhere you try to hide.Then you will die,and so will your children,relatives, and neighbors.11But I can be trustedto care for your orphansand widows.12Even those nations that don't deserve to be punished will have to drink from the cup of my anger. So how can you possibly hope to escape? 13I, the Lord, swear in my own name that your city of Bozrah<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> and all your towns will suffer a horrible fate. They will lie in ruins forever, and people will use the name “Bozrah” as a curse word.14I have sent a messengerto command the nationsto prepare for waragainst you people of Edom.15Your nation will be small,yet hated by other nations.16Pride tricks you into thinkingthat other nationslook at you with fear.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> You live along the cliffsand high in the mountainslike the eagles,but I am the Lord,and I will bring you down.17People passing by your countrywill be shocked and horrifiedto see a disaster18<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> as bad as the destructionof Sodom and Gomorrahand towns nearby.The towns of Edom will be empty.19<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> I, the Lord, will attack youlike a lion from the forest,attacking sheep in a meadowalong the Jordan.In a moment the flock runs,and the land is empty.Who will I choose to attack you?I will do it myself!No one can force me to fightor chase me away.20Listen to my plans for you,people of Edom.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> Your children will be dragged offand your country destroyed.21The sounds of your destructionwill reach the Red Sea<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> and cause the earth to shake.22An enemy will swoop downto attack you,like an eagle spreading its wingsand circling over Bozrah.Your warriors will be as fearfulas women giving birth.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> <h3 class="s1">What the Lord Says about Damascus</h3>23<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> The Lord says about Damascus:The towns of Hamath and Arpad<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.23!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> have heard your bad news.They have lost hope,and worries roll over themlike ocean waves.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.23!f.3" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 24You people of Damascushave lost your courage,and in panic you turn to run,gripped by fear and pain.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 25Once I was pleasedwith your famous city.But now I warn you, “Escapewhile you still can!”<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 26Soon, even your best soldierswill lie dead in your streets.I, the Lord All-Powerful,have spoken.27I will set fire to your city wallsand burn down the fortressesKing Benhadad built.<h3 class="s1">Nebuchadnezzar and the People of the Desert</h3>28Here is what the Lord says about the Kedar tribe and the desert villages<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.28!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> that were conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.28!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> of Babylonia:Listen, you people of Kedarand the other tribesof the eastern desert.I have told Nebuchadnezzarto attack and destroy you.29His fearsome armywill surround you,taking your tents and possessions,your sheep and camels.30Run and hide,you people of the desertwho live in villages!<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.30!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> Nebuchadnezzar has big plansfor you.31You have no city wallsand no neighbors to help,yet you think you're safe—so I told him to attack.32Then your camelsand large herdswill be yours no longer.People of the Arabian Desert,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.32!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> disaster will strike youfrom every side,and you will be scatteredeverywhere on earth.33Only jackals<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.33!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> will livewhere your villages<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.49.33!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> once stood.I, the Lord, have spoken.<h3 class="s1">What the Lord Says about Elam</h3>34-35Not long after Zedekiah<a href="#Jer.49.34-Jer.49.35!f.1" id="link_Jer.49.34-Jer.49.35!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> became king of Judah, the Lord told me to say:People of Elam,<a href="#Jer.49.34-Jer.49.35!f.2" id="link_Jer.49.34-Jer.49.35!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> I, the Lord All-Powerful,will kill the archerswho make your army strong.36Enemies will attackfrom all directions,and you will be led captiveto every nation on earth.37Their armies will crushand kill you,and you will face the disasterthat my anger brings.38Your king and his officialswill die, and I will rulein their place.I, the Lord, have spoken.39But I promise that somedayI will bring your peopleback to their land.</div> </div> <a name="fn"></a> Footnotes: <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Milcom: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The national god of Ammon, probably the same as the god Molech in 32.35.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Heshbon: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See also 48.45; since Heshbon was near the border of Moab and Ammon, it was probably ruled by the country that was stronger at the time.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">your town will become a pile of rubble: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “because the town of Ai has been destroyed”; referring to an Ammonite town named Ai, not the town of that name near Bethel in the land of Israel.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">You will turn … blocked: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sackcloth: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 4.8.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the idol you worship: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Milcom” (see verse 1 and the note there).</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">when … fading: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.7,8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Teman: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The name of a town in Edom, sometimes used as the name of the northern half of the nation of Edom; here it probably stands for the whole nation.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.7,8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Esau: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The ancestor of the nation of Edom.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.7,8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Dedan: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The name of a town in northwest Arabia, also used of the northwest region of Arabia along the Red Sea.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.7,8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">anyone … home: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Bozrah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The main city and capital of Edom.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Pride … fear: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Edom: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text also uses the name “Teman” (see the note at 49.7,8).</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Red Sea: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew <char style="tl">yam suph</char>, here referring to the Gulf of Aqaba, since the term is extended to include the northeastern arm of the Red Sea (see also the note at Exodus 13.18).</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.22 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">as fearful … birth: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.23 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Hamath and Arpad: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Two towns in Syria that had been the capitals of small kingdoms allied with the more powerful kingdom whose capital was Damascus.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.23 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">worries … waves: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">gripped by fear and pain: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.25 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">can: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 25.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.28 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">desert villages: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “kingdoms of Hazor,” which probably refers to several kingdoms of desert peoples who were not nomads, but who lived in small villages.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.28 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Nebuchadnezzar: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 21.2.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.30 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">villages: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 49.28.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.32 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">People of the Arabian Desert: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.33 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">jackals: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 9.11.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.33 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">villages: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 49.28.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.34,35 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Zedekiah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.3.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">49.34,35 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Elam: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A nation east of Babylonia, attacked by Nebuchadnezzar about 596 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note></div></div> <div align="center">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®) © 2006 American Bible Society. 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