Heshbon, for Ai is undone;Cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth;Lament, and run to and fro among the folds;For Malcam shall go into captivity,His priests and his princes together.4Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys,Thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?That didst trust in thy treasures:'Who shall come unto me?'5Behold, I will bring a terror upon thee,Saith the Lord God of hosts,From all that are round about thee;And ye shall be driven out every man right forth,And there shall be none to gather up him that wandereth.6But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon,Saith the Lord.
7Of Edom.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts:Is wisdom no more in Teman?Is counsel perished from the prudent?Is their wisdom vanished?8Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep,O inhabitants of Dedan;For I do bring the calamity of Esau upon him,The time that I shall punish him.9If grape-gatherers came to thee,Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?If thieves by night,Would they not destroy till they had enough?10But 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.11Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them,And let thy widows trust in Me.
12For thus saith the Lord: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink. 13For I have sworn by Myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
14I have heard a message from the Lord,And an ambassador is sent among the nations:'Gather yourselves together, and come against her,And rise up to the battle.'15For, behold, I make thee small among the nations,And despised among men.16Thy terribleness hath deceived thee,Even the pride of thy 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.17And Edom shall become an astonishment;Every one that passeth by itShall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.18As in the overthrow of Sodom and GomorrahAnd the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord,No man shall abide there,Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the thickets of the JordanAgainst the strong habitation;For I will suddenly make him run away from it,And whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it;For who is like Me? and who will appoint Me a time?And who is that shepherd that will stand before Me?20Therefore hear ye 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 drag them away,Surely their habitation shall be appalled at them.21The earth quaketh at the noise of their fall;There is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.22Behold, he shall come up and swoop down as the vulture,And spread out his wings against Bozrah;And the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that dayShall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
23Of Damascus.
Hamath is ashamed, and Arpad;For they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away;There is trouble in the sea;It cannot be quiet.24Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee,And trembling hath seized on her;Anguish and pangs have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.25'How is the city of praise left unrepaired,The city of my joy?'26Therefore her young men shall fall in her broad places,And all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,Saith the Lord of hosts.27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,And it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
28Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote.
Thus saith the Lord:Arise ye, go up against Kedar,And spoil the children of the east.29Their tents and their flocks shall they take,They shall carry away for themselves their curtains,And all their vessels, and their camels;And they shall proclaim against them a terror on every side.30Flee ye, flit 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.31Arise, get you up against a nation that is at ease,That dwelleth without care, saith the Lord;That have neither gates nor bars,That dwell alone.32And their camels shall be a booty,And the multitude of their cattle a spoil;And I will scatter unto all winds them that have the corners polled;And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith the Lord.33And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals,A desolation for ever; no man shall abide there,Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
34The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:
35Thus saith the Lord of hosts:Behold, I will break the bow of ElamThe chief of their might.36And I will bring against Elam the four windsFrom the four quarters of heaven,And will scatter them toward all those winds;And there shall be no nation whither the dispersed of Elam shall not come.37And 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;38And I will set My throne in Elam,And will destroy from thence king and princes, saith the Lord.39But it shall come to pass in the end of days,That I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord.
50The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
2Declare ye among the nations and announce,And set up a standard;Announce, and conceal not;Say: 'Babylon is taken,Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed;Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'3For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her,Which shall make her land desolate,And none shall dwell therein;They are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.4In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord,The children of Israel shall come,They and the children of Judah together;They shall go on their way weeping,And shall seek the Lord their God.5They shall inquire concerning ZionWith their faces hitherward:'Come ye, and join yourselves to the LordIn an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.' 6My people hath been lost sheep;Their shepherds have caused them to go astray,They have turned them away on the mountains;They have gone from mountain to hill,They have forgotten their resting-place.7All that found them have devoured them;And their adversaries said: 'We are not guilty';Because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice,Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers. 8Flee out of the midst of Babylon,And go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans,And be as the he-goats before the flocks.9For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against BabylonAn 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 man that maketh childless;None shall return in vain.10And Chaldea shall be a spoil;All that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.11Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice,O ye that plunder My heritage,Because ye gambol as a heifer at grass,And neigh as strong horses;12Your mother shall be sore ashamed,She that bore you shall be confounded;Behold, the hindermost of the nationsShall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.13Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited,But it shall be wholly desolate;Every one that goeth by BabylonShall be appalled and hiss at all her plagues.14Set 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.15Shout against her round about, she hath submitted herself;Her buttresses 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.16Cut 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. 17Israel 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.18Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the