Jeremiah 49 Cross References - MLV

¹ Concerning the sons of Ammon. Jehovah says thus: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad and his people dwell in the cities of it? ² Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and it will become a desolate heap and her daughters will be burned with fire. Then Israel will possess those who possessed him, says Jehovah.
³ Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste. Cry, you* daughters of Rabbah. Gird you* with sackcloth. Lament and run to and fro among the fences. For Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his rulers together. ⁴ Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley? O backsliding daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who will come to me?
⁵ Behold, I will bring a fear upon you, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, from all who are all around you. And you* will be driven out every man straight forth and there will be none to gather together the fugitives. ⁶ But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the sons of Ammon, says Jehovah.
⁷ Of Edom. Jehovah of hosts says thus: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? ⁸ Flee you*, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. ⁹ If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough? ¹⁰ But I have made Esau bare. I have uncovered his secret places and he will not be able to hide himself. His seed is destroyed and his brothers and his neighbors and he is not.
¹¹ Leave your fatherless sons; I will preserve them alive. And let your widows trust in me. ¹² For Jehovah says thus: Behold, those to whom it did not pertain to drink of the cup will assuredly drink. And are you he who will go altogether unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but you will surely drink. ¹³ For I have sworn by myself, says Jehovah, that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste and a curse and all the cities of it will be everlasting wastes. ¹⁴ I have heard news from Jehovah. And an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together and come against her and rise up to the battle. ¹⁵ For, behold, I have made you small among the nations and despised among men.
¹⁶ As for your formidableness, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
¹⁷ And Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss at all the plagues of it. ¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Jehovah, no man will dwell there, nor will any son of man journey in it.
¹⁹ Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation. For I will suddenly make them run away from it. And he who is chosen, him I will appoint over it. For who is like me and who will appoint a time for me and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?
²⁰ Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah that he has taken against Edom and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
²¹ The earth trembles at the noise of their fall. There is a cry; the noise of it is heard in the Red Sea. ²² Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle and spread out his wings against Bozrah. And the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
²³ Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded and Arpad, for they have heard evil news. They are melted away. There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. ²⁴ Damascus has grown feeble. She turns herself to flee and trembling has seized on her. Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
²⁵ How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? ²⁶ Therefore her young men will fall in her streets and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Jehovah of hosts. ²⁷ And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
²⁸ Of Kedar and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon killed*. Jehovah says thus: You*, arise. Go up to Kedar and destroy the sons of the east. ²⁹ They will take their tents and their flocks. They will carry away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels. And they will cry to them, Terror on every side! ³⁰ Flee you*. Wander far off. Dwell in the depths, O you* inhabitants of Hazor, says Jehovah. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you* and has conceived a purpose against you*.
³¹ Arise, you* get up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without worry, says Jehovah, that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone. ³² And their camels will be a booty and the multitude of their cattle a spoil. And I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their hair cut off. And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Jehovah. ³³ And Hazor will be a dwelling-place of jackals, a everlasting desolation. No man will dwell there, nor will any son of man journey in it.
³⁴ The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, ³⁵ Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. ³⁶ And upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds. And there will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.
³⁷ And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies and before those who seek their life. And I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, says Jehovah. And I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them. ³⁸ And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from there king and rulers, says Jehovah. ³⁹ But it will happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Jehovah.

³⁸ And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. The same is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.

¹⁹ And when you come near opposite the sons of Ammon, do not harass them, nor contend with them, for I will not give you of the land of the sons of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.

³ An Ammonite or a Moabite will not enter into the assembly of Jehovah, even to the tenth generation none belonging to them will enter into the assembly of Jehovah everlasting,

⁷ And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the sons of Ammon. ⁸ And they distressed and oppressed the sons of Israel that year. Eighteen years they oppressed all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

¹³ And the king of the sons of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
¹⁴ And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the sons of Ammon. ¹⁵ And he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the sons of Ammon,

¹ Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh-gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us and we will serve you. ² And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you*, that all your* right eyes be put out and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
³ And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel and then, if there is none to save us, we will come out to you.

³³ from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

² And Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the sons of Ammon and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

¹ And it happened after this, that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

²³ For the sons of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, to kill* and destroy them utterly. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another of themselves.

¹⁹ But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said, What is this thing that you* do? Will you* rebel against the king?

⁷ But it happened that, when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry,

¹ On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people and in it was found written that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God everlasting, ² because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them. However our God turned the curse into a blessing.

⁶ The enemy have come to an end. They are desolate forever and the cities which you have overthrown. The very memory of them has perished,

⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre,

⁹ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants of it and against all these nations all around. And I will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and everlasting desolations.

²¹ Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon,

³ And send them to the king of Edom and to the king of Moab and to the king of the sons of Ammon and to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

¹ Of Moab. Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is taken. The fortress is put to shame and broken down.

⁷ Of Edom. Jehovah of hosts says thus: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

²³ Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded and Arpad, for they have heard evil news. They are melted away. There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

²⁸ Of Kedar and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon killed*. Jehovah says thus: You*, arise. Go up to Kedar and destroy the sons of the east.

²⁸ And you, son of man, prophesy and say, The lord Jehovah says thus concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach. And you say, A sword, a sword is drawn. It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning, ²⁹ while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you upon the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
³⁰ Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you. ³¹ And I will pour out my indignation upon you. I will breathe fire of my wrath upon you and I will deliver you into the hand of stupid men, skillful to destroy. ³² You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will no more be remembered. For I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

² Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them.
³ And say to the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the lord Jehovah. The lord Jehovah says thus: Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary when it was profaned and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity, ⁴ therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the sons of the east for a possession and they will set their encampments in you and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk. ⁵ And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the sons of Ammon a couching-place for flocks.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
⁶ For thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced with all the spite of your soul against the land of Israel, ⁷ therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon you and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you.
And you will know that I am Jehovah.
⁸ The lord Jehovah says thus: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations, ⁹ therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country–Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim– ¹⁰ open to the sons of the east, against the sons of Ammon. And I will give them for a possession, that the sons of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.

¹³ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. ¹⁴ But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah and it will devour the palaces of it, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind. ¹⁵ And their king will go into captivity, he and his rulers together, says Jehovah.

⁸ I have heard the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border. ⁹ Therefore as I live, says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab will be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits and a everlasting desolation. The residue of my people will make a prey of them and the remnant of my nation will inherit them.
¹⁰ They will have this for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts. ¹¹ Jehovah will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

²⁵ And Israel took all these cities. And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all the towns of it.

¹¹ (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his couch was a couch of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was the length of it and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

²⁴ And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad, according to their families. ²⁵ And their border was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead and half the land of the sons of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah,

¹ And it happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel. And they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

²⁷ And Joab sent messengers to David and said, I have fought against Rabbah; yes, I have taken the city of waters. ²⁸ Now therefore gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it is called after my name.
²⁹ And David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.

¹¹ Let Mount Zion be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.48:12 Walk about Zion and go all around her. Number the towers of it,

⁸ Zion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of your judgments, O Jehovah.

¹ For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land. And the traveler will join himself with them and they will cling to the house of Jacob. ² And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place. And the house of Israel will possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids. And they will take them captive whose captives they were and they will rule over their oppressors.
³ And it will happen in the day that Jehovah will give you rest from your sorrow and from your trouble and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart. My heart is in an uproar in me. I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

¹ Concerning the sons of Ammon. Jehovah says thus: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad and his people dwell in the cities of it?

⁴⁶ And your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
⁴⁷ Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations, but, like it was a very little thing, you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
⁴⁸ As I live, says the lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. ⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man. ⁵⁰ And they were haughty and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
⁵¹ Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins, but you have multiplied your abominations more than they and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
⁵² You also, bear your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters, through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
⁵³ And I will turn back again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them, ⁵⁴ that you may bear your own shame and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
⁵⁵ And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate and you and your daughters will return to your* former estate.

²⁰ You will appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

⁴ therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the sons of the east for a possession and they will set their encampments in you and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk. ⁵ And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the sons of Ammon a couching-place for flocks.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
⁶ For thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced with all the spite of your soul against the land of Israel,

¹⁴ But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah and it will devour the palaces of it, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.

¹⁹ And those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau and those of the lowland the Philistines. And they will possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁸ So Joshua burnt Ai and made it an everlasting heap, even a desolation, to this day.

⁵ For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

³³ because that they have forsaken me and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon. And they have not walked in my ways, to do what is right in my eyes and to keep my statutes and my ordinances as David his father did.

¹³ And the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the King of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon.

³ They are barren with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation. ⁴ They pluck mallows by the bushes and the roots of the juniper are their food.
⁵ They are driven forth from the midst of men. They cry out after them as after a thief, ⁶ so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. ⁷ Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together.

⁶ Wail you*, for the day of Jehovah is at hand. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

³¹ Howl, O gate, cry, O city. You are melted away, O Philistia, all of you. For there comes a smoke out of the north and there is no straggler in his ranks.

² They have gone up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. On all their heads is baldness. Every beard is cut off.

⁷ Therefore Moab will wail for Moab, everyone will wail. You* will mourn for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth, utterly stricken.

¹ The burden of Tyre. Howl, you* ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. It is revealed to them from the land of Kittim.

⁶ Pass over to Tarshish. Wail, you* inhabitants of the coast.

¹¹ Tremble, women who are at ease. Be troubled, you* careless ones. Strip you* and make you* bare and gird sackcloth upon your* loins. ¹² They will beat upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

⁸ For this gird you* with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

²⁶ O daughter of my people, gird with sackcloth and wallow yourself in ashes. You make mourning, as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation. For the destroyer will suddenly come upon us.

²⁵ Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says, Behold, I will punish Amon of No and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

² The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, O madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.

⁷ For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. And Chemosh will go forth into captivity, his priests and his rulers together.

²⁰ Moab is put to shame, for it is broken down. Wail and cry, tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

³⁷ For every head is bald and every beard clipped. Upon all the hands are cuttings and upon the loins sackcloth.

⁸ Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Wail for her. Take balm for her pain, perhaps she may be healed.

¹⁵ And their king will go into captivity, he and his rulers together, says Jehovah.

⁵ and those who worship the host of heaven upon the housetops and those who worship, who swear to Jehovah and swear by Malcam,

¹ Come now you rich, weep, howling in your miseries, in those which are coming upon you.

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,

⁷ Behold, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

¹⁰ Do not trust in oppression and do not become vain in robbery. Because if riches increase, do not set your* heart on it.

¹⁵ The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

¹ Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine! ² Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. As a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast down to the earth with the hand.
³ The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot. ⁴ And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, will be as the first-ripe fig before the summer, which, when he who looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand, he eats it up.

⁷ And you said, I will be a mistress everlasting, so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.
⁸ Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am and there is none else besides me. I will not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of sons.

¹⁴ Return, O backsliding sons, says Jehovah, for I am a husband to you*. And I will take you*, one of a city and two of a family and I will bring you* to Zion.

²⁴ But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.

²³ Jehovah says thus: Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Do not let the rich man glory in his riches,

¹³ Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley and of the rock of the plain, says Jehovah, you* who say, Who will come down against us? Or who will enter into our habitations?

¹⁶ As for your formidableness, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.

⁴ By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures. ⁵ By your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches. And your heart is lifted up because of your riches.
⁶ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God, ⁷ therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and they will defile your brightness.

¹⁶ For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

⁴ Though you mount on high as the eagle and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
⁵ If thieves came to you, if robbers by night (how you are cut off!), they would not steal only till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

¹⁷ Command the rich in this current age, not to be cavalier, nor to have hope on the uncertainty of riches, but have hope in the living God, who is richly providing to us all things toward enjoyment;

⁷ In how-much she glorified herself and was promiscuous, give to her so-much more torment and mourning, because she says in her heart, I am sitting as a queen and I am no widow and may never see mourning.

⁹ And she said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you* the land and that the fear of you* has fallen upon us. And that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you*.

⁶ For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army. And they said one to another, Behold, the King of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. ⁷ Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp as it was and fled for their life.

⁷ Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news and will return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

²¹ Sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

¹ A wicked man flees when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

³ Give counsel, execute justice, make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday. Hide the outcasts. Do not betray the fugitive.

⁸ Their widows have increased to me above the sand of the seas. I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

⁴ For Jehovah says thus, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they will fall by the sword of their enemies and your eyes will behold it. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will carry them captive to Babylon and will kill them with the sword.

⁵ Why have I seen it?
They are dismayed and have turned backward. And their mighty ones are beaten down and have fled in flight and do not look back. Terror is on every side, says Jehovah.

⁴¹ Kerioth is taken and the strongholds are seized and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. ⁴² And Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Jehovah.
⁴³ Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says Jehovah. ⁴⁴ He who flees from the fear will fall into the pit and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare. For I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says Jehovah.

²⁹ They will take their tents and their flocks. They will carry away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels. And they will cry to them, Terror on every side!

³ And you* will go out at the breaches, each one straight before her and you* will cast yourselves into Harmon, says Jehovah.

¹² But do not look on the day of your brother in the day of his disaster and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ Do not enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity.
Yes, do not look on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor lay you* hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. ¹⁴ And stand not in the crossway, to cut off those of his who escape and do not deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

¹⁸ In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear to Jehovah of hosts. One will be called The city of destruction.
¹⁹ In that day will there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt and a pillar to Jehovah at the border of it. ²⁰ And it will be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they will cry to Jehovah because of oppressors and he will send them a savior and a defender and he will deliver them.
²¹ And Jehovah will be known to Egypt and the Egyptians will know Jehovah in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and oblation and will vow a vow to Jehovah and will perform it. ²² And Jehovah will kill* Egypt, slaying and healing and they will return to Jehovah. And he will be entreated by them and will heal them.
²³ In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria. And the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

¹⁸ And her merchandise and her pay will be holiness to Jehovah. It will not be treasured nor laid up, for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently and for durable clothing.

²⁶ And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants. And afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of long-ago, says Jehovah.

⁴⁷ Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

³⁹ But it will happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Jehovah.

⁵³ And I will turn back again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them,

³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, I beseech you, feed me with that same red pottage, because I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom.

⁴¹ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

⁸ And Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom.

¹¹ And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho and Gatam and Kenaz.

¹⁵ These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau were : chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

³⁴ And Jobab died and Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned instead of him.

¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the King of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has befallen us, ¹⁵ how our fathers went down into Egypt and we dwelt in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt ill with us and our fathers. ¹⁶ And when we cried to Jehovah, he heard our voice and sent a messenger and brought us forth out of Egypt. And behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the outermost of your border. ¹⁷ I beseech you, let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells. We will go along the king's highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.
¹⁸ And Edom said to him, You will not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you. ¹⁹ And the sons of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway. And if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price of it. Only let me, without doing anything, pass through on my feet. ²⁰ And he said, You will not pass through. And Edom came out against him with many people and with a strong hand.
²¹ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Therefore Israel turned away from him.

¹⁷ I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. There will come out a star out of Jacob and a scepter will rise out of Israel and will kill* through the corners of Moab and break down all the sons of tumult. ¹⁸ And Edom will be a possession, Seir also will be a possession, who were his enemies, while Israel does valiantly.

⁷ You will not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You will not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a traveler in his land.

⁵³ chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

¹¹ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place–Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite–and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. ¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

⁴ They have said, Come and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
⁵ Because they have consulted together with one consent. They make a covenant against you: ⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites, ⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre, ⁸ Assyria also is joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. Selah.
⁹ Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon, ¹⁰ who perished at En-dor, who became as manure for the earth.

⁷ Remember, O Jehovah, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation of it.

¹¹ The rulers of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How will you* say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise men, the son of long-ago kings? ¹² Where then are your wise men? And let them tell you now and let them know what Jehovah of hosts has purposed concerning Egypt. ¹³ The rulers of Zoan have become fools. The rulers of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go-astray, the chief of her tribes.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder. I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.

¹ Come near, you* nations, to hear. And listen, peoples. Let the earth hear and the fullness of it, the world and all things that come out from it. ² For Jehovah has indignation against all the nations and wrath against all their host. He has utterly destroyed them. He has delivered them to the slaughter. ³ Their slain also will be cast out. And the stench of their dead bodies will come up and the mountains will be melted with their blood.
⁴ And all the host of heaven will be dissolved and the heavens will be rolled together as a scroll. And all their host will fade away as the leaf fades from the vine and as a fading leaf from the fig tree.
⁵ For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it will come down upon Edom and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. ⁶ The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood. It is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ And the wild oxen will come down with them and the bullocks with the bulls. And their land will be drunken with blood and their dust made fat with fatness. ⁸ For Jehovah has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
⁹ And the streams of Edom will be turned into pitch and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land of it will become burning pitch. ¹⁰ It will not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it will go up everlasting. From generation to generation it will lie waste. None will pass through it forever and forever. ¹¹ But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. And the owl and the raven will dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion and the plummet of emptiness. ¹² They will call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none will be there. And all its rulers will be nothing.
¹³ And thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it. And it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. ¹⁴ And the wild beasts of the desert will meet with the wolves. And the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the screech owl will settle there and will find her a place of rest. ¹⁵ There the dart-snake will make her nest and lay and hatch and gather under her shade. Yes, there the vultures will be gathered, each one with her mate.
¹⁶ Seek out of the book of Jehovah and read. No one of these will be missing. None will want her mate. For my mouth, it has commanded and his Spirit, it has gathered them. ¹⁷ And he has cast the lot for them and his hand has divided it to them by line. They will possess it everlasting. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this who is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
² Why are you red in your apparel and your garments like he who treads in the wine vat? ³ I have trodden the winepress alone and of the peoples there was no man with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments and I have stained all my garments. ⁴ For the day of vengeance was in my heart and the year of my redeemed has come.
⁵ And I looked and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. And my wrath, it upheld me. ⁶ And I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us kill* him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words.

²⁰ Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah that he has taken against Edom and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

¹² The lord Jehovah says thus: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and has greatly offended and revenged himself upon them, ¹³ therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
¹⁴ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. And they will know my vengeance, says the lord Jehovah.

¹ Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. ³ And say to it, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir and I will stretch out my hand against you and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. ⁴ I will lay your cities waste and you will be desolate.
And you will know that I am Jehovah.
⁵ Because you have had a everlasting enmity and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end, ⁶ therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will prepare you to blood and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.
⁷ Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation and I will cut off from it he who passes through and he who returns. ⁸ And I will fill its mountains with its slain. In your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses will fall who are slain with the sword. ⁹ I will make you a everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
¹⁰ Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries will be mine and we will possess it, and Jehovah was there, ¹¹ therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will do according to your anger and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them when I will judge you.
¹² And you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate. They are given us to devour. ¹³ And you* have magnified yourselves against me with your* mouth and made your* words abundant against me. I have heard it.
¹⁴ The lord Jehovah says thus: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. ¹⁵ As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir and all Edom, even all of it. And they will know that I am Jehovah.

⁴¹ He will also enter into the glorious land and many countries will be overthrown. But these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the chief of the sons of Ammon.

¹⁹ Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

¹¹ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity. And his anger tore perpetually and he kept his wrath forever. ¹² But I will send a fire upon Teman and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.

¹ The vision of Obadiah. The lord Jehovah says thus concerning Edom: We have heard news from Jehovah and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise and let us rise up against her in battle. ² Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though you mount on high as the eagle and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
⁵ If thieves came to you, if robbers by night (how you are cut off!), they would not steal only till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
⁶ How are the things of Esau searched! How are his hidden treasures sought out! ⁷ All the men of your confederacy have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you and prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.
⁸ Jehovah says, Shall I not in that day, destroy the wise men out of Edom and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? ⁹ And your mighty men, O Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
¹⁰ Shame will cover you for the violence done to your brother Jacob and you will be cut off everlasting. ¹¹ In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.
¹² But do not look on the day of your brother in the day of his disaster and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ Do not enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity.
Yes, do not look on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor lay you* hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. ¹⁴ And stand not in the crossway, to cut off those of his who escape and do not deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
¹⁵ For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealing will return upon your own head. ¹⁶ For as you* have drunk upon my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink and swallow down and will be as though they had not been.
¹⁷ But in Mount Zion there will be those who escape and it will be holy and the house of Jacob will possess their possessions. ¹⁸ And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble. And they will burn among them and devour them and there will not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for Jehovah has spoken it.
¹⁹ And those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau and those of the lowland the Philistines. And they will possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
²⁰ And the captives of this host of the sons of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath. And the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the South. ²¹ And saviors will come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau and the kingdom will be Jehovah's.

³ God came from Teman and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise.

³ but Esau I hated and made his mountains a desolation and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
⁴ If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places, Jehovah of hosts says thus: They will build, but I will throw down and men will call them the border of wickedness and the people against whom Jehovah has indignation everlasting.

²² They were foolish, claiming to be wise, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and of four footed mammals and of reptiles.

² And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. And because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

⁶ When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves and in thickets and in rocks and in coverts and in pits.

²¹ to go into the caverns of the rocks and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

¹³ The burden upon Arabia.
In the forest in Arabia you* will lodge, O you* caravans of Dedanites.

¹ Flee for safety, you* sons of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem. And blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem. For evil looks forth from the north and a great destruction.

²³ Dedan and Tema and Buz and all who have the corners of their hair cut off,

²¹ Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their visitation.

⁶ Flee, save your* lives and be like the heath in the wilderness.

²⁸ O you* inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities and dwell in the rock and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

⁴⁴ He who flees from the fear will fall into the pit and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare. For I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says Jehovah.

³⁰ Flee you*. Wander far off. Dwell in the depths, O you* inhabitants of Hazor, says Jehovah. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you* and has conceived a purpose against you*.

³² And their camels will be a booty and the multitude of their cattle a spoil. And I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their hair cut off. And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Jehovah.

²⁷ Kill all her bullocks. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken and will make yourself naked.
²² The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins.

¹ I saw the Lord standing beside the altar. And he said, Strike the capitals, that the thresholds may shake and break them in pieces on the head of all of them and I will kill the last of them with the sword. There will not one of them flee away and there will not one of them escape.
² Though they dig into Sheol, from there my hand will take them and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. ³ And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.

³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though you mount on high as the eagle and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.

¹⁵ Therefore, whenever you behold the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let the one who is reading perceive),
¹⁶ then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; ¹⁷ let the one who is upon the housetop not go down to take the things out of his house, ¹⁸ and let the one who is in the field not turn behind to take his garments.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth and the great-men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every bondservant and free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;

⁶ Yet there will be gleanings left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree–two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, says Jehovah, the God of Israel.

⁵ If thieves came to you, if robbers by night (how you are cut off!), they would not steal only till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
⁶ How are the things of Esau searched! How are his hidden treasures sought out!

²⁸ Because Jehovah loves justice and does not forsake his holy ones. They are preserved everlasting, but the seed of the wicked will be cut off.

³⁵ I have seen a wicked man in great power and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. ³⁶ But I passed by, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

²⁰ You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have slain your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named everlasting.
²¹ Prepare you* slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth and fill the face of the world with cities. ²² And I will rise up against them, says Jehovah of hosts and cut off from Babylon name and remnant and son and son's son, says Jehovah.

¹⁴ At eventide, behold, terror, and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of those who despoil us and the lot of those who rob us.

³ And I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Jehovah, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.

²⁴ Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I will not see him? says Jehovah. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says Jehovah.

³ And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.

⁹ And your mighty men, O Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

¹³ Just-as it has been written, ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’

¹⁸ He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the traveler in giving him food and garments.

¹⁴ You have seen. Because you behold mischief and spite, to repay with your hand. The poor man commits himself to you. You have been the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break you the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness will be sought and will not be found. ¹⁶ Jehovah is King everlasting and forever. The nations have perished out of his land. ¹⁷ Jehovah, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear, ¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more terrify.

⁵ A father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

³ Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

⁹ Jehovah preserves the travelers. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

¹⁰ Do not remove the ancient landmark. And do not enter into the fields of the fatherless, ¹¹ because their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against you.

³ Assyria will not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in you the fatherless finds mercy.

¹¹ And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand and also much cattle?

⁵ And I will come near to you* to judgment and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against the false swearers and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless and who turn aside the traveler and do not fear me, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁵ Now she who really is a widow and has been left alone and has hoped in God and remains in supplications and prayers night and day.

²⁷ A clean and undefiled religion with our God and Father is this: to ^{F} visit ^{F} the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

⁵ He who mocks a poor man reproaches his maker. He who is glad at calamity will not be unpunished.

¹⁵ For Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

²⁸ And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you will say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus: You* will surely drink. ²⁹ For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name and should you* be utterly unpunished? You* will not be unpunished. For I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says Jehovah of hosts.

¹¹ For I am with you, says Jehovah, to save you. For I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you. But I will discipline you in measure and will in no way leave you unpunished.

²⁷ But do not fear, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel. For behold, I will save you from afar and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease and none will make him afraid.

¹⁶ For as you* have drunk upon my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink and swallow down and will be as though they had not been.

¹⁷ Because the time for judgment is to begin from the house of God, and if it begins first from us, what will be the end of those who are disobedient to the good-news of God? ¹⁸ And if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?

¹⁶ and said, I have sworn by myself, says Jehovah, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,

³³ And Bela died and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned instead of him.

⁶ The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood. It is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁹ And the streams of Edom will be turned into pitch and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land of it will become burning pitch. ¹⁰ It will not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it will go up everlasting. From generation to generation it will lie waste. None will pass through it forever and forever. ¹¹ But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. And the owl and the raven will dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion and the plummet of emptiness. ¹² They will call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none will be there. And all its rulers will be nothing.
¹³ And thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it. And it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. ¹⁴ And the wild beasts of the desert will meet with the wolves. And the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the screech owl will settle there and will find her a place of rest. ¹⁵ There the dart-snake will make her nest and lay and hatch and gather under her shade. Yes, there the vultures will be gathered, each one with her mate.

²³ I have sworn by myself, the word has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness and will not return, that to me every knee will bow, every tongue will confess to God.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this who is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

²⁶ Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says Jehovah, that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the lord Jehovah lives.

¹⁷ And Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss at all the plagues of it. ¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Jehovah, no man will dwell there, nor will any son of man journey in it.

²² Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle and spread out his wings against Bozrah. And the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

¹² But I will send a fire upon Teman and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.

⁸ The lord Jehovah has sworn by himself, Jehovah, the God of hosts says: I abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his palaces, therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

¹⁸ And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble. And they will burn among them and devour them and there will not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for Jehovah has spoken it.

² Set up an ensign upon the bare mountain. Lift up the voice to them. Wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. ³ I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly rejoicing ones.

² that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, You* go swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people fearful from their beginning onward, a nation mighty and trampled down, whose land the rivers divide!
³ All you* inhabitants of the world and you* dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see you* and when the trumpet is blown, hear you*.

⁴ For their rulers are at Zoan and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

⁷ Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news and will return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

⁹ For behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country and they will set themselves in array against her. From there she will be taken. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man; none will return in vain. ¹⁰ And Chaldea will be a prey. All who prey upon her will be satisfied, says Jehovah.
¹¹ Because you* are glad, because you* rejoice, O you* who plunder my heritage, because you* are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain and neigh as strong horses, ¹² your* mother will be utterly put to shame. She who bore you* will be confounded. Behold, she will be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land and a desert. ¹³ Because of the wrath of Jehovah she will not be inhabited, but she will be entirely desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished and hiss at all her plagues.
¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you* who bend the bow. Shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against Jehovah. ¹⁵ Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her ramparts are fallen. Her walls are thrown down. For it is the vengeance of Jehovah. Take vengeance upon her. As she has done, do to her. ¹⁶ Cut off the sower from Babylon and he who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword they will turn each one to his people and they will flee each one to his own land.

¹¹ Make sharp the arrows. Hold firm the shields. Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it. For it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

²⁷ Set up a standard in the land. Blow the trumpet among the nations. Prepare the nations against her. Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint a marshal against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm. ²⁸ Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors of it and all the deputies of it and all the land of their dominion.

⁴⁶ And do not let your* heart faint. Neither fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year and after that in another year, news and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

²⁵ Destruction comes. And they will seek peace and there will be none.
²⁶ Mischief will come upon mischief and rumor will be upon rumor.
And they will seek a vision of the prophet, but the law will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.

¹ The vision of Obadiah. The lord Jehovah says thus concerning Edom: We have heard news from Jehovah and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise and let us rise up against her in battle. ² Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

⁶ But you are about to hear of wars and reports of wars; behold, do not alarmed; for it is essential for all these things to happen, but the end is not yet.

⁷ Jehovah makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. ⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's and he has set the world upon them.

³⁰ Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house and the house of your father, should walk before me everlasting, but now Jehovah says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

⁵ They were in great fear there, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame because God has rejected them.

² Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

¹⁰ Then my enemy will see it and shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes will see my desire upon her. Now she will be trodden down as the mud of the streets.

⁵¹ He has made his dominion known with his arm. He has scattered the haughty in the perception of their heart.

²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes her nest on high?

¹⁸ Pride is before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat the fruit of it.

²³ A man's pride will bring him low, but he who is of a lowly spirit will obtain honor.

¹⁴ O my dove, who are in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the steep place, let me see your countenance; let me hear your voice. Because sweet is your voice and your countenance is becoming.

¹³ And you said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God and I will sit upon the mountain of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north. ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High. ¹⁵ Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.

⁴ For you have been a stronghold to a poor man, a stronghold to a needy man in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the oppressors is as a storm against the wall. ⁵ As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the oppressors will be brought low.

²⁵ But Jehovah says thus, Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away and the prey of the terrible will be delivered.
For I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your sons.

²⁸ O you* inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities and dwell in the rock and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
²⁹ We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud, his loftiness and his pride and his arrogance and the haughtiness of his heart.

¹¹ Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ¹² Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, The lord Jehovah says thus: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, the topaz and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald and the carbuncle and gold. The workmanship of your tambourine and of your pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
¹⁴ You were the anointed cherub who covers. And I set you, so that you were upon the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
¹⁵ You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. ¹⁶ By the abundance of your commerce they filled the midst of you with violence and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you out of the mountain of God as profane and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
¹⁷ Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom because of your brightness. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may behold you.
¹⁸ By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the midst of you. It has devoured you and I have turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all those who behold you.
¹⁹ All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a horror and you will not be until everlasting.

² Though they dig into Sheol, from there my hand will take them and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

⁸ And though this house is so high, yet will every man who passes by it is astonished and will hiss. And they will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

²⁰ then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them. And this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight and I will make it a proverb and a parable among all peoples.
²¹ And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

¹⁶ to make their land an astonishment and a everlasting hissing, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.

¹³ For I have sworn by myself, says Jehovah, that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste and a curse and all the cities of it will be everlasting wastes.

¹³ Because of the wrath of Jehovah she will not be inhabited, but she will be entirely desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished and hiss at all her plagues.

³⁷ And Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? ¹⁶ All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

¹³ therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

⁷ Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation and I will cut off from it he who passes through and he who returns.

¹⁵ As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir and all Edom, even all of it. And they will know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁶ For the statutes of Omri are kept and all the works of the house of Ahab and you* walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation and the inhabitants of it a hissing. And you* will bear the reproach of my people.

¹⁵ This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and wag his hand.

²⁴ Then Jehovah rained brimstone and fire upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, from Jehovah out of heaven. ²⁵ And he overthrew those cities and all the Plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew upon the ground.

²³ The whole land of it is brimstone and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath,

¹⁵ There will dwell in his tent what is none of his. Brimstone will be scattered upon his habitation. ¹⁶ His roots will be dried up beneath and above his limbs be will cut off.
¹⁷ His remembrance will perish from the earth and he will have no name in the street. ¹⁸ He will be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

⁶ He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.

¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁰ It will never be inhabited, nor will it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Neither will the Arabian pitch tent there, nor will shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. ²¹ But wild beasts of the desert will lie there and their houses will be full of doleful creatures. And ostriches will dwell there and wild goats will dance there. ²² And wolves will cry in their castles and jackals in the pleasant palaces. And her time is near to come and her days will not be prolonged.

¹⁰ It will not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it will go up everlasting. From generation to generation it will lie waste. None will pass through it forever and forever.

³³ And Hazor will be a dwelling-place of jackals, a everlasting desolation. No man will dwell there, nor will any son of man journey in it.

⁴⁰ As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Jehovah, so will no man dwell there, nor will any son of man journey in it.

¹¹ I have overthrown cities among you*, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and you* were as a brand plucked out of the burning.
Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.

⁹ Therefore as I live, says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab will be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits and a everlasting desolation. The residue of my people will make a prey of them and the remnant of my nation will inherit them.

⁶ and he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, with a catastrophe, incinerating them, having placed them as an example for those who are about to be ungodly;

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in a similar manner with these, having indulged in fornication and having gone after different flesh, are laying before us as an example, being held under the sentence of everlasting fire.

²¹ And a strong messenger took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, So Babylon, the great city, will be cast down, with a violent-impulse, and may never be found anymore. ²² And the voice of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters may never be heard in you anymore, and every craftsman of every craft may never be found in you anymore, and the voice of a millstone may never be heard in you anymore; ²³ and the light of a lamp may never appear in you anymore, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride may never be heard in you anymore. Your merchants were the great-men of the earth, because all the nations were misled in your sorcery.

¹¹ Who is like you, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

¹⁵ and when those who bore the ark came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

¹⁵ These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month when it had overflowed all its banks. And they put to flight all those of the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.

¹⁹ If of strength behold, he is mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?

²¹ Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

³ O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
⁴ I would set my case in order before him and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me. ⁷ There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

² Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.
³ Then Job answered Jehovah and said, ⁴ Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand upon my mouth. ⁵ I have spoken once and I will not answer, yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.
⁶ Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, ⁷ Gird up your loins now like a man. I will demand of you and declare you to me. ⁸ Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

¹⁰ None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

³ Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
⁴ Hear, I beseech you and I will speak, I will ask of you and declare you to me. ⁵ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

⁷ You, even you, are to be feared. And who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?

⁶ Because who in the clouds can be compared to Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah,

⁸ O Jehovah God of hosts, who is a mighty one like you, O Jehovah? And your faithfulness is all around you.

⁵ Who is like Jehovah our God who has his seat on high, ⁶ and yet looks upon the low things in heaven and in the earth.

² And do not enter into judgment with your servant. Because in your sight no man living is righteous.

²⁵ To whom then will you* liken me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One.

⁷ A lion has gone up from his thicket and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way, he has gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

⁵ If you have run with the footmen and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

²¹ And their prince will be of themselves and their ruler will proceed from the midst of them. And I will cause him to draw near and he will approach to me. For who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Jehovah.

⁴⁴ Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation. For I will suddenly make them run away from it and he who is chosen, him I will appoint over it.
For who is like me and who will appoint a time for me and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
⁴⁵ Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, that he has taken against Babylon and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them. ⁴⁶ At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles and the cry is heard among the nations.

⁶ Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire and the rocks are broken apart by him.

³ A voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.

¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

¹⁹ The caravans of Tema looked, the traveling of Sheba waited for them. ²⁰ They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there and were confounded.

¹¹ The counsel of Jehovah stands fast everlasting, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of Jehovah, that will stand.

²⁴ Jehovah of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so will it happen and as I have purposed, so will it stand, ²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then will his yoke depart from them and his burden depart from their shoulder.
²⁶ This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷ For Jehovah of hosts has purposed and who will annul it? And his hand is stretched out and who will turn it back?

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning and from long-ago things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel will stand and I will do all my pleasure, ¹¹ calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also make it occur. I have purposed. I will also do it.

¹⁰ For though you* had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you* and there remained but wounded men among them, yes they would rise up every man in his tent and burn this city with fire.

⁴⁵ Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, that he has taken against Babylon and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

⁶ Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says Jehovah of hosts.

²⁸ to do as many things as your hand and your council predetermined to happen.

²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world, in order that he might shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, in order that he might shame the strong; ²⁸ and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things which have been scorned and the things which are not, in order that he might do-away-with the things which are; ²⁹ that no flesh might boast in God’s sight.

¹¹ In him in whom, we were also made an inheritance, having been predetermined according to the purpose of the one who is working all things after the plan of his will.

⁴ that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased
⁵ Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, ⁶ who killed* the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
⁷ The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break forth into singing. ⁸ Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid low, no hewer has come up against us.
⁹ Sheol from beneath is moved for you, to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. ¹⁰ They will all answer and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us? ¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of your viols. The worm is spread under you and worms cover you.
¹² How you are fallen from heaven, O daystar, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

⁴⁶ At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles and the cry is heard among the nations.

¹⁶ Gather you together. Go to the right. Set yourself in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set.

¹⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you? ¹⁶ Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their thrones and lie aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit upon the ground and will tremble every moment and be astonished at you.
¹⁷ And they will take up a lamentation over you and say to you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who dwelt there! ¹⁸ Now the isles will tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the isles that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.

¹⁰ Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you. And their kings will be horribly afraid for you when I will brandish my sword before them. And they will tremble at every moment, each man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

¹⁰ standing from afar because of their fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! Because in one hour your judgment has come.

⁴⁹ Jehovah will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue you will not understand,

⁵ The cords of Sheol were all around me. The snares of death came upon me.

⁸ And they will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will take hold. They will be in pain as a woman in travail. They will look in amazement one at another, their faces, faces of flame.

³ Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

¹⁷ As a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, O Jehovah.

¹³ Behold, he will come up as clouds and his chariots as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

³¹ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.

²⁴ We have heard the report of it. Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us and pangs as of a woman in travail.

²¹ What will you say when he will set over you as head those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Shall not sorrows take hold of you as of a woman in travail?

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

⁶ Ask you* now and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail and all faces are turned into paleness?

⁴⁰ For Jehovah says thus: Behold, he will fly as an eagle and will spread out his wings against Moab. ⁴¹ Kerioth is taken and the strongholds are seized and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

²⁴ Damascus has grown feeble. She turns herself to flee and trembling has seized on her. Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

⁴ The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I beheld till the wings of it were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon two feet as a man and a man's heart was given to it.

¹ Set the trumpet to your mouth. As an eagle he comes against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law.

³ For whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-destruction stands by them, just-like the travail a woman has in her womb, and they may never flee away from it.

¹⁵ And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants and killed* them and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

² And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what will you give me, since I go childless. And he who will be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

²¹ So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

⁸ And the officers will speak further to the people and they will say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.

¹¹ And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man because of you*, for Jehovah your* God, he is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.

⁸ Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I entirely followed Jehovah my God.

⁹ And when Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,

¹⁰ And even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man and those who are with him are valiant men.

²⁴ And he gathered men to him and became captain over a troop when David killed them of Zobah. And they went to Damascus and dwelt in it and reigned in Damascus.

²⁴ And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the sons of Israel. And they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities of it.

³⁴ Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

¹³ Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah?

² Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Jehovah and of the king's house and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,

²⁶ They mountain up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. ²⁷ They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits' end.

⁹ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

¹¹ And it will happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who will remain, from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Cush and from Elam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.

⁷ Therefore all hands will be feeble and every heart of man will melt.

¹ The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city and it will be a ruinous heap. ² The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which will lie down and none will make them afraid. ³ And the fortress will cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus. And the remnant of Syria, they will be as the glory of the sons of Israel, says Jehovah of hosts.

¹³ Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah?

²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest and its waters cast up mud and dirt.

³ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. ⁴ But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. ⁵ And I will break the bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven and he who holds the scepter from the house of Eden and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir, says Jehovah.

² Pass to Calneh and see and from there go to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your* border?

¹⁰ She is empty and void and waste. And the heart melts and the knees kill* together and anguish is in all loins and the faces of them all have grown pale.

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting-place (for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah), ² and also Hamath, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

²³ But while sailing, he slept and a gale of wind came down onto the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in peril.
²⁴ Now having come to him, they aroused him, saying, Master, Master! We are perishing. But having arisen, he rebuked the wind and the wave of the water, and they ceased, and it became calm.

²⁵ And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and dismay of nations upon the earth, in perplexity from the noisy sea and the noisy billows; ²⁶ men passing-out from fear and expectation of the things which are coming upon the inhabited-earth; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

² asked from him letters for Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found some who were of the Way, both men and women, having been bound, he might lead them to Jerusalem.

²⁰ But when neither sun nor stars appeared upon most days and not just a small storm was laying down upon us, all our hope to be saved was furthermore taken away.

³² In Damascus the Ethnarch of Aretas, the king, was guarding the Damascenes’city, wishing to arrest me;

²⁶ And I will restore your judges as at the first and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town.

⁴ that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased
⁵ Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, ⁶ who killed* the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

⁹ And this city will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.

³⁹ How it is broken down! How they do wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So Moab will become a laughing-stock and a horror to all who are all around him.

⁴¹ How Sheshach is taken and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

¹⁶ And they are saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she who has been dressed in fine-linen, and purple and scarlet and has been arrayed in gold, precious stone and pearls! ¹⁷ Because in an hour so-many riches was made desolate. And every helmsman and everyone who sails any place and sailors and as many as are working from the sea, stood from afar, ¹⁸ and were crying out, seeing the smoke of her fire, saying, What city is similar to the great city? ¹⁹ And they cast dirt upon their heads and were crying, weeping and mourning and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were enriched out of her costliness! Because in one hour she was made desolate.

²¹ For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.

²² Therefore Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine,

³⁰ Therefore her young men will fall in her streets and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Jehovah.

³ Against he who bends let the archer bend his bow and against he who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. And spare you* not her young men. Destroy utterly all her host. ⁴ And they will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans and thrust through in her streets.

²¹ The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered and not pitied.

²⁷ Your riches and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your repairers and the dealers in your merchandise and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

¹⁰ I have sent among you* the pestilence according to the manner of Egypt. I have slain your* young men with the sword and have carried away your* horses and I have made the stench of your* camp to come up even into your* nostrils.
Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.

¹⁸ Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah and the treasures of the king's house and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying, ¹⁹ There is a league between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your league with Baasha King of Israel, that he may depart from me.
²⁰ And Ben-hadad listened to king Asa and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel and killed* Ijon and Dan and Abelbeth-maacah and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

¹ And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. And there were thirty-two kings with him and horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it. ² And he sent messengers to Ahab King of Israel, into the city and said to him, Thus says Ben-hadad, ³ Your silver and your gold is mine, your wives also and your sons, even the best, are mine. ⁴ And the King of Israel answered and said, It is according to your saying, my lord, O king, I am your and all that I have.
⁵ And the messengers came again and said, Thus speaks Ben-hadad, saying, I indeed sent to you, saying, You will deliver to me your silver and your gold and your wives and your sons. ⁶ But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time and they will search your house and the houses of your servants. And it will be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand and take it away.
⁷ Then the King of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, Mark, I beseech you* and see how this man seeks mischief, for he sent to me for my wives and for my sons and for my silver and for my gold and I did not deny him. ⁸ And all the elders and all the people said to him, Do you not listen, nor consent.
⁹ Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed and brought him word again.
¹⁰ And Ben-hadad sent to him and said, The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. ¹¹ And the King of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let he who girds on his armor boast himself as he who puts it off.
¹² And it happened, when Ben-hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
¹³ And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab King of Israel and said, Jehovah says thus, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day and you will know that I am Jehovah. ¹⁴ And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Jehovah says thus, By the young men of the rulers of the provinces. Then he said, Who will begin the battle? And he answered, You.
¹⁵ Then he mustered the young men of the rulers of the provinces and they were two hundred and thirty-two. And after them he mustered all the people, even all the sons of Israel, being seven thousand.
¹⁶ And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him. ¹⁷ And the young men of the rulers of the provinces went out first. And Ben-hadad sent out and they told him, saying, There are men come out from Samaria. ¹⁸ And he said, Whether they come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they come out for war, take them alive.
¹⁹ So these went out of the city, the young men of the rulers of the provinces and the army which followed them. ²⁰ And they killed everyone his man. And the Syrians fled and Israel pursued them. And Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen. ²¹ And the King of Israel went out and killed* the horses and chariots and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
²² And the prophet came near to the King of Israel and said to him, Go, strengthen yourself. And mark and see what you do, for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.

³ And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, continually.

⁵ (And Jehovah gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians and the sons of Israel dwelt in their tents as formerly.

¹² And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt and he will burn them and carry them away captive. And he will array himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd puts on his garment and he will go forth from there in peace.

⁶ But to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away eastward from Isaac his son, while he yet lived to the east country.

¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their genealogy: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,

³ And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up and the Amalekites and the sons of the east, they came up against them.

²⁹ These are their genealogy: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,

³ His substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred female-donkeys and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

⁵ I am black, but becoming, O you* daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

¹⁴ And they will fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west. Together they will despoil the sons of the east. They will put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon will obey them.

² Set up an ensign upon the bare mountain. Lift up the voice to them. Wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. ³ I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly rejoicing ones.
⁴ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! The noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the army for the battle. ⁵ They come from a far country, from the outermost part of heaven, even Jehovah and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

¹⁶ For thus the Lord has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will fail. ¹⁷ And the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few. For Jehovah, the God of Israel, has spoken it.

¹¹ Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

¹⁰ For pass over to the isles of Kittim and see and send to Kedar and consider diligently and see if there has been such a thing.

¹⁴ I have heard news from Jehovah. And an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together and come against her and rise up to the battle.

³⁰ Flee you*. Wander far off. Dwell in the depths, O you* inhabitants of Hazor, says Jehovah. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you* and has conceived a purpose against you*.
³¹ Arise, you* get up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without worry, says Jehovah, that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone.

²¹ Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand, in lambs and rams and goats. In these they were your merchants.

²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

⁵ For they came up with their cattle and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number and they came into the land to destroy it.

¹² And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

²¹ Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

²⁶ And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents and the pendants and the purple garments that was on the kings of Midian and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.

²⁰ And they were helped against them and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand and all that were with them, for they cried to God in the battle and he was entreated by them because they put their trust in him. ²¹ And they took away their cattle: of their camels fifty thousand and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand and of donkeys two thousand and of men a hundred thousand.

¹³ Because I have heard the slander of many. Terror was on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.

⁵ Woe is me, that I journey in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

²⁰ It will never be inhabited, nor will it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Neither will the Arabian pitch tent there, nor will shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will minister to you. They will come up with acceptance on my altar and I will glorify the house of my glory.

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed and my curtains in a moment.

²⁵ Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way, for the sword of the enemy and terror, are on every side.

²⁰ My tent is destroyed and all my cords are broken. My sons have gone forth from me and they are not. There is none to spread my tent any more and to set up my curtains.

³ And it happened on the morrow, that Pashhur brought out Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Jehovah has not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
⁴ For Jehovah says thus, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they will fall by the sword of their enemies and your eyes will behold it. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will carry them captive to Babylon and will kill them with the sword.

⁷ I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

⁸ We are being pressed in everything, but not distressed; being perplexed, but not despairing;

⁵ For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh still had no relief, but we were being afflicted in everything; outside were quarrels, inside were fears.

⁷ However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few.

²⁴ and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness, ²⁵ and all the kings of Zimri and all the kings of Elam and all the kings of the Medes,

⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. And the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.

⁹ For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone and will not be reckoned among the nations.

²⁸ And Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.

⁷ Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people that were in it, how they dwelt in security, according to the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure, for there was none in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything. And they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with any man.
⁸ And they came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol. And their brothers said to them, What do you* say? ⁹ And they said, Arise and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good and are you* idle? Do not be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land. ¹⁰ When you* go, you* will come to a people secure. And the land is large, for God has given it into your* hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is on the earth.

²⁷ And they took what Micah had made and the priest whom he had and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure and killed* them with the edge of the sword and they burnt the city with fire. ²⁸ And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with any man and it was in the valley that lies by Beth-rehob. And they built the city and dwelt in it.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease and with the contempt of the proud.

⁹ Rise up, you* women who are at ease. Hear my voice, you* careless daughters. Listen to my speech.

¹¹ Tremble, women who are at ease. Be troubled, you* careless ones. Strip you* and make you* bare and gird sackcloth upon your* loins.

⁸ Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am and there is none else besides me. I will not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of sons.

¹¹ Moab has been at ease from his youth and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remains in him and his scent is not changed.

⁹ In that day messengers will go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid and there will be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt, for behold, it comes.

¹¹ And you will say, I will go up to the land of un-walled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates,

⁶ And I will send a fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the isles.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁴ Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily in the forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

¹² Jehovah says thus: Though they are in full strength and likewise many, even so they will be cut down. And he will pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

⁶⁴ And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And you will serve other gods there, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone ones.

²⁶ Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

³⁶ And upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds. And there will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.

¹⁰ Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in the midst of you and the sons will eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you and I will scatter to all the winds the whole remnant of you.

¹² A third part of you will die with the pestilence and they will be consumed with famine in the midst of you and a third part will fall by the sword all around you and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will draw out a sword after them.

¹⁴ And I will scatter toward every wind all who are all around him to help him and all his groups. And I will draw out the sword after them.
¹⁵ And they will know that I am Jehovah, when I will disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

²³ I will also make it a possession for the porcupine and pools of water. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Jehovah of hosts.

¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

²² The voice of news. Behold, it comes and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

³⁹ Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves will dwell there and the ostriches will dwell in it. And it will no more be everlasting inhabited, nor will it be dwelt in from generation to generation. ⁴⁰ As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Jehovah, so will no man dwell there, nor will any son of man journey in it.

¹³ And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like the wilderness. ¹⁴ And herds will lie down in the midst of her. All the beasts of the nations, both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in the capitals of it. Their voice will sing in the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds. For he has laid bare the cedar work.
¹⁵ This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and wag his hand.

³ but Esau I hated and made his mountains a desolation and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

² And he cried in a mighty voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen and it has become a residence of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit and a prison of every unclean and having been hated bird.

²¹ And a strong messenger took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, So Babylon, the great city, will be cast down, with a violent-impulse, and may never be found anymore. ²² And the voice of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters may never be heard in you anymore, and every craftsman of every craft may never be found in you anymore, and the voice of a millstone may never be heard in you anymore;

²² The sons of Shem were : Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

¹ And it happened in the days of Amraphel King of Shinar, Arioch King of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer King of Elam and Tidal King of Goiim,

¹⁷ And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's father's brother, king is his stead and changed his name to Zedekiah. ¹⁸ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

⁹ Then wrote Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, (that is the Elamites),

² A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease.

²⁵ and all the kings of Zimri and all the kings of Elam and all the kings of the Medes,

²⁴ There is Elam and all her multitude all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
²⁵ They have set a bed for her in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are all around her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For their terror was caused in the land of the living and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put in the midst of those who are slain.

² And I saw in the vision, now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam and I saw in the vision and I was by the river Ulai.

⁹ Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,

⁹ He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the chariots in the fire.

⁶ And Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen and Kir uncovered the shield.

¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you* who bend the bow. Shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against Jehovah.

²⁹ Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around; let none of it escape.
Recompense to her according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

⁵⁶ For the destroyer has come upon her, even upon Babylon and her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces.
For Jehovah is a God of recompenses; he will surely reward.

²⁵ Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and will flee seven ways before them. And you will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

² Jehovah builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

¹² And he will set up an ensign for the nations and will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

³ Give counsel, execute justice, make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday. Hide the outcasts. Do not betray the fugitive. ⁴ Let my outcasts dwell with you. As for Moab, be a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

¹³ And it will happen in that day, that a great trumpet will be blown. And they will come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt. And they will worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

⁸ The lord Jehovah, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet I will gather to him, besides his own who are gathered.

¹⁷ For I will restore health to you and I will heal you of your wounds, says Jehovah, because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

² Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven broke forth upon the great sea. ³ And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another.

⁸ And the male-goat magnified himself exceedingly. And when he was strong, the great horn was broken and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of heaven.

²² And as for what was broken, in the place of which four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

⁴ And when he will stand up, his kingdom will be broken and will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled, for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

⁹ For behold, I will command and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, just as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet the least kernel will not fall upon the earth.

¹ I saw after this thing, four messengers standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding-fast the four winds of the earth, in order that no wind should blow upon the earth nor upon the sea nor upon any tree.

³³ And I will scatter you* among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you* and your* land will be a desolation and your* cities will be a waste.

⁴ Because behold, the kings assembled themselves. They passed by together.
⁵ They saw it, then were they amazed. They were dismayed, they hastened away. ⁶ Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

¹⁶ I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

²⁴ The fierce anger of Jehovah will not return until he has executed and till he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days you* will understand it.

²⁰ I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies will be for food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.
²¹ And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his rulers, into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army that has gone away from you*.

⁵ Behold, I will bring a fear upon you, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, from all who are all around you. And you* will be driven out every man straight forth and there will be none to gather together the fugitives.

³⁶ A sword is upon the boasters and they will become fools. A sword is upon her mighty men and they will be dismayed.

² A third part you will burn in the fire in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and you will take a third part and kill* with the sword all around it and a third part you will scatter to the wind. And I will draw out a sword after them.

¹⁴ And I will scatter toward every wind all who are all around him to help him and all his groups. And I will draw out the sword after them.

²³ whose graves are set in the outermost parts of the pit. And her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

¹⁰ and say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

⁹ I beheld till thrones were placed and one who was ancient of days sat. His garments was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames and the wheels of it burning fire. ¹⁰ A fiery stream was streaming and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set and the books were opened.
¹¹ I beheld at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I beheld even till the beast was slain and its body destroyed and it was given to be burned with fire. ¹² And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away. Yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
¹³ I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of heaven someone like a son of man. And he came even to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him.
¹⁴ And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed.

¹⁰ And Jehovah turned back the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

² And it will happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house will be established on the top of the mountains and will be exalted above the hills and all nations will flow to it.

⁶ But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the sons of Ammon, says Jehovah.

¹⁴ and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth.
And they will be a base kingdom there.

¹⁶ And you will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I will be made holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.

²⁵ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel. And I will be jealous for my holy name.

²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets. And he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.
Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are these:

¹⁴ I have come now to make you understand what will befall your people in the latter days, for the vision is yet for many days.

⁵ Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king and will come with fear to Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.

¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and they will build the waste cities and inhabit them and they will plant vineyards and drink the wine of it. They will also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.

¹ But in the latter days it will happen, that the mountain of Jehovah's house will be established on the top of the mountains and it will be exalted above the hills and peoples will flow to it.