Jeremiah · Majority Standard Bible
Jeremiah 49 Majority Standard Bible
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Jeremiah is not in PT1904.
1 Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
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2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
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3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
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4 Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’
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5 Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.
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6 Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
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7 Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
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8 Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.
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9 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?
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10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
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11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
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12 For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
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13 For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
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14 I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: “Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!”
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15 “For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.
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16 The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
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17 “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
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18 As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
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19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
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20 Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
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21 At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
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22 Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
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23 Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
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24 Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor.
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25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
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26 For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
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27 “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
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28 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!
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29 They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’
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30 Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.
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31 Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.
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32 Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.
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33 “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
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34 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.
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35 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.
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36 I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
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37 So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
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38 I will set My throne in Elam, and destroy its king and officials,” declares the LORD.
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39 “Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.
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Cross references (38)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 25:2–10; Amos 1:13–15; Zephaniah 2:8–11; Deuteronomy 23:3; Jeremiah 25:21
- 2 Jeremiah 4:19; Ezekiel 21:20; Deuteronomy 3:11; Ezekiel 25:4–6; Amos 1:14
- 3 Jeremiah 48:7; Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:37; 1 Kings 11:5; 1 Kings 11:33
- 4 1 Timothy 6:17; Jeremiah 9:23; Jeremiah 21:13; Psalm 52:7; Psalm 62:10
- 5 Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29; 2 Kings 19:7; Isaiah 16:3; Jeremiah 20:4
- 6 Jeremiah 49:39; Jeremiah 48:47; Jeremiah 46:26; Isaiah 23:18; Isaiah 19:18–23
- 7 Amos 1:11–12; Ezekiel 25:12–14; Genesis 36:15; Jeremiah 25:21; Genesis 25:30
- 8 Jeremiah 25:23; Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 49:30; Isaiah 21:13; Jeremiah 48:28
- 9 Obadiah 5–6; Isaiah 17:6
- 10 Isaiah 17:14; Malachi 1:3–4; Psalm 37:28; Isaiah 45:3; Amos 9:3
- 11 Psalm 68:5; James 1:27; Hosea 14:3; 1 Timothy 5:5; Jonah 4:11
- 12 Jeremiah 25:28–29; Obadiah 16; Lamentations 4:21–22; Jeremiah 25:15; 1 Peter 4:17–18
- 13 Genesis 36:33; Isaiah 34:6; Genesis 22:16; Isaiah 45:23; Amos 6:8
- 14 Isaiah 30:4; Isaiah 37:7; Isaiah 13:2–3; Jeremiah 51:46; Matthew 24:6
- 15 Psalm 53:5; Obadiah 2; 1 Samuel 2:7–8; Luke 1:51; 1 Samuel 2:30
- 16 Job 39:27; Amos 9:2; Isaiah 49:25; Proverbs 16:18; Obadiah 3–4
- 17 Ezekiel 35:7; Jeremiah 50:13; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 51:37; Jeremiah 18:16
- 18 Jeremiah 49:33; Deuteronomy 29:23; Zephaniah 2:9; Jeremiah 50:40; Job 18:15–18
- 19 Jeremiah 12:5; Jeremiah 30:21; Jeremiah 50:44–46; Job 9:19; Joshua 3:15
- 20 Jeremiah 50:45; Malachi 1:3–4; Jeremiah 49:7; Jeremiah 49:17–18; Ephesians 1:11
- 21 Jeremiah 50:46; Ezekiel 26:15–18; Ezekiel 21:16; Isaiah 14:4–15; Revelation 18:10
- 22 Jeremiah 48:40–41; Isaiah 13:8; Hosea 8:1; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 49:24
- 23 2 Kings 18:34; Isaiah 10:9; Genesis 15:2; Genesis 14:15; Isaiah 57:20
- 25 Jeremiah 33:9; Jeremiah 51:41; Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 14:4–6; Revelation 18:10
- 26 Jeremiah 50:30; Amos 4:10; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 51:3–4; Jeremiah 9:21
- 27 1 Kings 15:18–20; Amos 1:3–5; 1 Kings 20:1–22; Jeremiah 43:12; 2 Kings 13:3
- 28 Judges 6:3; Isaiah 11:14; Genesis 25:13; Isaiah 21:16–17; Ezekiel 27:21
- 29 Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 6:25; Habakkuk 3:7; Psalm 120:5; Jeremiah 49:24
- 30 Jeremiah 27:6; Isaiah 10:7; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 25:24–25
- 31 Ezekiel 38:11; Isaiah 47:8; Micah 7:14; Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 33:28
- 32 Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 25:23; Jeremiah 49:36; Ezekiel 5:10; Ezekiel 12:14–15
- 33 Jeremiah 51:37; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 9:11; Malachi 1:3; Zephaniah 2:13–15
- 34 Genesis 10:22; Jeremiah 25:25; Daniel 8:2; Genesis 14:1; Isaiah 21:2
- 35 Isaiah 22:6; Psalm 46:9; Jeremiah 51:56; Jeremiah 50:14; Jeremiah 50:29
- 36 Jeremiah 49:32; Daniel 8:8; Jeremiah 30:17; Amos 9:9; Ezekiel 5:10
- 37 Jeremiah 9:16; Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 50:36; Jeremiah 48:39; Ezekiel 12:14
- 38 Daniel 7:9–14; Jeremiah 43:10
- 39 Jeremiah 48:47; Isaiah 2:2; Ezekiel 29:14; Ezekiel 16:53–55; Micah 4:1
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