Jeremiah 49  Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Does Israel have no sons?
Is he without an heir?
Why then has Milcom^[a][b] dispossessed Gad^(B)
and his people settled in their cities?
² Therefore look, the days are coming^(C) –
this is the Lord’s declaration –
when I will make the shout of battle^(D) heard
against Rabbah^(E) of the Ammonites.
It will become a desolate mound,
and its surrounding villages will be set on fire.
Israel will dispossess their dispossessors,
says the Lord.
³ Wail, Heshbon,^(F) for Ai is devastated;
cry out, daughters of Rabbah!
Clothe yourselves with sackcloth,^(G) and lament;
run back and forth within your walls,^[c]
because Milcom will go into exile
together with his priests and officials.^(H)
4 Why do you boast about your valleys,
your flowing valley,^[d]
you faithless daughter –
you who trust in your treasures
and say, ‘Who can attack me? ’
⁵ Look, I am about to bring terror on you^(I) –
this is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies –
from all those around you.
You will be banished, each person headlong,
with no one to gather up the fugitives.
⁶ But after that, I will restore the fortunes^[e] of the Ammonites.^(J)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?^(L)
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away?^(M)
8 Run! Turn back! Lie low,
residents of Dedan,^(N)
for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him^(O)
at the time I punish him.^(P)
9 If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?^(Q)
Were thieves to come in the night,
they would destroy only what they wanted.^(R)
10 But I will strip Esau bare;
I will uncover his secret places.^(S)
He will try to hide,^(T) but he will be unable.
His descendants will be destroyed
along with his relatives and neighbours.
He will exist no longer.^(U)
11 Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;
let your widows trust in me.^(V)

¹⁴ I have heard an envoy from the Lord;
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
Assemble yourselves to come against her.
Rise up for war!

Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,^(AN)
for they have heard a bad report and are agitated,
like^[j] the anxious sea that cannot be calmed.
²⁴ Damascus has become weak;
she has turned to run;
panic has gripped her.
Distress and labour pains have seized her
like a woman in labour.^(AO)
25 How can the city of praise not be abandoned,^(AP)
the town that brings me joy?
²⁶ Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares;
all the warriors will perish in that day.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.^(AQ)
27 I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;
it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels.^(AR)

Rise up, attack Kedar,
and destroy the people of the east!
²⁹ They will take their tents and their flocks
along with their tent curtains and all their equipment.
They will take their camels for themselves.
They will call out to them,
‘Terror is on every side! ’^(AU)
30 Run! Escape quickly! Lie low,
residents of Hazor –
this is the Lord’s declaration –
for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
has drawn up a plan against you;
he has devised a strategy against you.

I am about to shatter Elam’s bow,^(BA)
the source^[l] of their might.
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 banished ones will not go.
³⁷ I will devastate Elam before their enemies,
before those who intend to take their lives.
I will bring disaster on them,
my burning anger.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will send the sword after them^(BB)
until I finish them off.
³⁸ I will set my throne in Elam,
and I will destroy the king and officials from there.
This is the Lord’s declaration.