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Has he no heir? Why then has Malcolm inherited Gad, and why do his people dwell in its cities?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbath of the Ammonites; and it shall become a desolate heap, and its little villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall be heir to those who were his heirs, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed; call for help, O villages of Rabbath, gird you with sackcloth; mourn, be disquieted; for Malcolm shall go into captivity, together with his priests and princes, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Why do you glory in your valleys and trust in your broad plains, O beloved daughter who trusts in her treasures, saying, Who shall come against me?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>Behold, I will bring a terror upon you from all your borders, says the LORD of hosts; and I will drive the people in all directions; and none shall gather up the wanderers.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Concerning Edom, thus says the LORD of hosts: There is no more wisdom in Teman; the counsel is perished from the prudent; their wisdom is taken away.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>Flee, turn back, dwell in deep crevices, O inhabitants of Deran! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time of his punishment, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleaning grapes? If thieves came by night, they would destroy till they have enough.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>But I have searched out Esau, I have uncovered his secret places, and he tried to hide himself but could not; his descendants are driven away, and his brethren and his neighbors are no more.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Leave your fatherless children; I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>For thus says the LORD: Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and though you consider yourselves blameless, you shall not go unpunished; but you shall surely drink of the cup. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a desolation, a reproach, and a curse; and all its cities shall become perpetual wastes.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>I have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent to the nations, saying, Arise, let us go up against her to the battle.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>For, lo, I will make you small among the nations and despised among men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Your wickedness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart. O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill; who say in your hearts, Who can bring us down to the ground? though you make your nest among the stars, and though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>And Edom shall become a desolation; every one who passes by it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>It shall be overthrown just as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any human being live in it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the sheepfold of Atan; but I will suddenly make them run away from her; and I will charge young warriors against her; for who is like me? And who shall testify against me? And who is that leader who can prevail against me?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore, hear the counsel that the LORD has devised against Edom, and his purposes that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely even the least of the flock they shall shear; and the enemy shall make their folds desolate over them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>The earth is moved at the sound of their fall, and the noise of their wailing is heard from the Red sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Behold, he shall come up and fly mightily like an eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard evil tidings; they are dismayed, they are disturbed like the sea, they cannot find rest.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>Damascus is weakened, and she turns to flee; trembling has seized her; anguish and pangs have taken her like a woman in travail.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>How is the glorious city ruined, the city of joy!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be silenced, in that day, says the LORD of hosts.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>And I will kindle a fire in the streets of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Bar-hadad.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon smote; thus says the LORD: Arise, go up against Kedar and plunder the men of the east.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>Their tents and their flocks shall the enemy take away; they shall carry away their curtains and all their vessels and their camels; and the oppressor shall shout against them on every side.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>Flee, get you far away, dwell in deep places, O inhabitants of Hazor, says the LORD; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you and has conceived a purpose against you, saying,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>Arise, get you up against a wealthy nation that dwells in tranquillity, says the LORD, that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>And their camels shall be booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all the winds those whose beards are clipped; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>And Hazor shall be a dwelling place for jackals and a desolation for ever; there shall no one abide there, nor any human live in it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>Concerning Elam, the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he might prophesy concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-35.htm#aramaic"><b>35</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-36.htm#aramaic"><b>36</b></a></span>And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter the people to all these winds; and there shall be no nation whither the dispersed ones of Elam shall not come.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-37.htm#aramaic"><b>37</b></a></span>And I will cause Elam to be defeated before their enemies and before those who seek their lives; and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them till I have consumed them;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-38.htm#aramaic"><b>38</b></a></span>I will set my throne in Elam, and I will destroy from thence the kings and the princes, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/49-39.htm#aramaic"><b>39</b></a></span>But it shall come to pass in the latter days that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says the LORD.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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