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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? 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. 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. 4 Where­fore glo­ri­est thou in the val­leys, thy flow­ing val­ley, O back­slid­ing daugh­ter? that trust­ed in her trea­sures, saying, Who shall come unto me? 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. 6 And af­ter­ward I will bring again the cap­tiv­i­ty of the chil­dren of Am­mon, saith the LORD. 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? 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. 9 If grape­gath­er­ers come to thee, would they not leave some glean­ing grapes? if thieves by night, they will de­stroy till they have enough. 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. 11 Leave thy fa­ther­less chil­dren, I will pre­serve them alive; and let thy wid­ows trust in me. 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. 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. 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. 15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the hea­then, and de­spised among men. 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. 17 Also Edom shall be a des­o­la­tion: ev­ery one that goeth by it shall be as­ton­ished, and shall hiss at all the plagues there­of. 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. 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? 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. 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise there­of was heard in the Red sea. 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. 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. 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. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 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. 27 And I will kin­dle a fire in the wall of Dam­as­cus, and it shall con­sume the palaces of Ben­hadad. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, 35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Be­hold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. 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. 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: 38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will de­stroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD. 39 But it shall come to pass in the lat­ter days, that I will bring again the cap­tiv­i­ty of Elam, saith the LORD.