Jeremiah:49-50
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Concerning the Ammonites ben #,
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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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites ben #;
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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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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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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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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And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon ,
saith the LORD .
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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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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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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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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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Leave thy fatherless children ,
I will preserve them alive ;
and let thy widows trust in me .
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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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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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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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For ,
lo ,
I will make thee small among the heathen ,
and despised among men .
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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 gib #
ah #:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Concerning Damascus .
Hamath is confounded ,
and Arpad :
for they have heard evil tidings sh @
muw #
ah #:
they are fainthearted ;
there is sorrow on the sea ;
it cannot be quiet .
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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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How is the city of praise not left ,
the city of my joy !
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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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And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus ,
and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad Ben-Hadad #.
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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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Their tents and their flocks shall they take away :
they shall take to themselves their curtains y @
riy #
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and all their vessels ,
and their camels ;
and they shall cry unto them ,
Fear is on every side .
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Flee ,
get you far off m @#
od #,
dwell deep ,
O ye inhabitants of Hazor ,
saith the LORD ;
for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel #
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and hath conceived a purpose against you .
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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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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 pe #
ah #;
and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof ,
saith the LORD .
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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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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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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
Behold ,
I will break the bow of Elam ,
the chief of their might .
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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 #
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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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And I will set my throne in Elam ,
and will destroy from thence the king and the princes ,
saith the LORD .
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But it shall come to pass in the latter days ,
that I will bring again (
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the captivity sh @
of Elam ,
saith the LORD .
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The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet .
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Declare ye among the nations ,
and publish ,
and set up a standard ;
publish ,
and conceal not :
say ,
Babylon is taken ,
Bel is confounded ,
Merodach is broken in pieces ;
her idols are confounded ,
her images are broken in pieces .
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For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her ,
which shall make her land desolate ,
and none shall dwell therein :
they shall remove ,
they shall depart ,
both man and beast .
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In those days ,
and in that time ,
saith the LORD ,
the children of Israel shall come ,
they and the children of Judah together ,
going and weeping :
they shall go ,
and seek the LORD their God .
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They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward ,
saying ,
Come ,
and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten .
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My people hath been lost sheep tso #
n #:
their shepherds have caused them to go astray ,
they have turned them away (
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on the mountains :
they have gone from mountain to hill gib #
ah #,
they have forgotten their restingplace .
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All that found them have devoured them :
and their adversaries said ,
We offend not ,
because they have sinned against the LORD ,
the habitation of justice ,
even the LORD ,
the hope of their fathers .
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Remove out of the midst of Babylon ,
and go forth (
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out of the land of the Chaldeans ,
and be as the he goats before the flocks tso #
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For ,
lo ,
I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country :
and they shall set themselves in array against her ;
from thence she shall be taken :
their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man (
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none shall return in vain .
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And Chaldea shall be a spoil :
all that spoil her shall be satisfied ,
saith the LORD .
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Because ye were glad ,
because ye rejoiced ,
O ye destroyers of mine heritage ,
because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass ,
and bellow as bulls ;
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Your mother shall be sore confounded ;
she that bare you shall be ashamed :
behold ,
the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness ,
a dry land ,
and a desert .
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Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited ,
but it shall be wholly desolate :
every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished ,
and hiss at all her plagues .
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Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about :
all ye that bend the bow ,
shoot at her ,
spare no arrows :
for she hath sinned against the LORD .
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Shout against her round about :
she hath given her hand :
her foundations are fallen ,
her walls are thrown down :
for it is the vengeance of the LORD :
take vengeance upon her ;
as she hath done ,
do unto her .
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Cut off the sower from Babylon ,
and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest :
for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people ,
and they shall flee every one to his own land .
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Israel is a scattered sheep ;
the lions have driven him away :
first the king of Assyria hath devoured him ;
and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
el #;
Behold ,
I will punish the king of Babylon and his land ,
as I have punished the king of Assyria .
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And I will bring #
Israel again to his habitation ,
and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan ,
and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead Gil #
ad #.
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In those days ,
and in that time ,
saith the LORD ,
the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for ,
and there shall be none ;
and the sins of Judah ,
and they shall not be found :
for I will pardon them whom I reserve .
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Go up against the land of Merathaim ,
even against it ,
and against the inhabitants of Pekod :
waste and utterly destroy after them ,
saith the LORD ,
and do according to all that I have commanded thee .
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A sound of battle is in the land ,
and of great destruction .
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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken !
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations !
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I have laid a snare for thee ,
and thou art also taken ,
O Babylon ,
and thou wast not aware :
thou art found ,
and also caught ,
because thou hast striven against the LORD .
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The LORD hath opened his armoury ,
and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation za #
am #:
for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans .
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Come against her from the utmost border ,
open her storehouses ma #
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cast her up as heaps ,
and destroy her utterly :
let nothing of her be left sh @#
eriyth #.
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Slay all her bullocks ;
let them go down to the slaughter :
woe unto them !
for their day is come ,
the time of their visitation .
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The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon ,
to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God ,
the vengeance of his temple .
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Call together the archers against Babylon :
all ye that bend the bow ,
camp against it round about ;
let none thereof escape :
recompense her according to her work po #
al #;
according to all that she hath done ,
do unto her :
for she hath been proud against the LORD ,
against the Holy One of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets ,
and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day ,
saith the LORD .
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Behold ,
I am against thee ,
O thou most proud ,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts :
for thy day is come ,
the time that I will visit thee .
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And the most proud shall stumble and fall ,
and none shall raise him up :
and I will kindle a fire in his cities ,
and it shall devour all round about him .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together :
and all that took them captives held them fast ;
they refused to let them go .
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Their Redeemer is strong ;
the LORD of hosts is his name :
he shall throughly plead their cause ,
that he may give rest to the land ,
and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon .
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A sword is upon the Chaldeans ,
saith the LORD ,
and upon the inhabitants of Babylon ,
and upon her princes ,
and upon her wise men .
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A sword is upon the liars ;
and they shall dote :
a sword is upon her mighty men ;
and they shall be dismayed .
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A sword is upon their horses ,
and upon their chariots ,
and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her ;
and they shall become as women :
a sword is upon her treasures ;
and they shall be robbed .
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A drought is upon her waters ;
and they shall be dried up :
for it is the land of graven images ,
and they are mad upon their idols .
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Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there ,
and the owls bath #
shall dwell therein :
and it shall be no more inhabited for ever ;
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation .
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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof ,
saith the LORD ;
so shall no man abide there ,
neither shall any son of man dwell therein .
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Behold ,
a people shall come from the north ,
and a great nation ,
and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth .
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They shall hold the bow and the lance :
they are cruel ,
and will not shew mercy :
their voice shall roar like the sea ,
and they shall ride upon horses ,
every one put in array ,
like a man to the battle ,
against thee ,
O daughter of Babylon .
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The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them ,
and his hands waxed feeble :
anguish took hold of him ,
and pangs as of a woman in travail .
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Behold ,
he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong :
but I will make #
them suddenly run away (
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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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Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD ,
that he hath taken against Babylon ;
and his purposes ,
that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans :
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out :
surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them .
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At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved ,
and the cry is heard among the nations .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I will raise up against Babylon ,
and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me ,
a destroying wind ;