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32 Then your camels
and large herds
    will be yours no longer.

People of the Arabian Desert,[a]
disaster will strike you
    from every side,
and you will be scattered
    everywhere on earth.
33 Only jackals[b] will live
where your villages[c] once stood.
    I, the Lord, have spoken.

What the Lord Says about Elam

34-35 Not long after Zedekiah[d] became king of Judah, the Lord told me to say:

People of Elam,[e]
    I, the Lord All-Powerful,
will kill the archers
    who make your army strong.

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Footnotes

  1. 49.32 People of the Arabian Desert: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 49.33 jackals: See the note at 9.11.
  3. 49.33 villages: See the note at 49.28.
  4. 49.34,35 Zedekiah: See the note at 1.3.
  5. 49.34,35 Elam: A nation east of Babylonia, attacked by Nebuchadnezzar about 596 b.c.

32 Their camels(A) will become plunder,
    and their large herds(B) will be spoils of war.
I will scatter to the winds(C) those who are in distant places[a](D)
    and will bring disaster on them from every side,”
declares the Lord.
33 “Hazor(E) will become a haunt of jackals,(F)
    a desolate(G) place forever.
No one will live there;
    no people will dwell(H) in it.”

A Message About Elam

34 This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(I) early in the reign of Zedekiah(J) king of Judah:

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:32 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads