1: Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel
no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his
people dwell in his cities? |
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2: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it
shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire:
then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
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3:
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the
hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his
princes together. |
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4: Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall
come unto me? |
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5: Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out
every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth. |
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6: And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children
of Ammon, saith the LORD. |
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7: Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no
more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
vanished? |
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8: Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I
will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit
him. |
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9: If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have
enough. |
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10: But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret
places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled,
and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not. |
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11: Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive;
and let thy widows trust in me. |
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12: For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not
to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall
altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt
surely drink of it. |
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13: For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall
become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the
cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. |
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14: I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is
sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her,
and rise up to the battle. |
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15: For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and
despised among men. |
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16: Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine
heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the
height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the
eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD. |
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17: Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. |
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18: As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall
a son of man dwell in it. |
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19: Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make
him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over
her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is
that shepherd that will stand before me? |
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20: Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:
surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them. |
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21: The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the
noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. |
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22: Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his
wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of
Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. |
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23: Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for
they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on
the sea; it cannot be quiet. |
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24: Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and
fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman
in travail. |
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25: How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
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26: Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all
the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
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27: And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad. |
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28: Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise
ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. |
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29: Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall
take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. |
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30: Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor,
saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel
against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. |
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31: Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth
without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which
dwell alone. |
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32: And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their
cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the
utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof,
saith the LORD. |
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33: And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation
for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in
it. |
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34: The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah,
saying, |
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35: Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of
Elam, the chief of their might. |
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36: And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four
quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and
there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
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37: For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them
even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after
them, till I have consumed them: |
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38: And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from
thence the king and the princes, ith the LORD. |
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39: But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will
bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD. |