Prophecy against Philistia
That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the aPhilistines, before Pharaoh conquered bGaza. 2 Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, waters are going to rise from athe north
And become an overflowing torrent,
And boverflow the land and all its fullness,
The city and those who live in it;
And the men will ccry out,
And every inhabitant of the land will wail.
3 “Because of the noise of the agalloping hoofs of his stallions,
The tumult of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not turned back for their children,
Because of the limpness of their hands,
4 On account of the day that is coming
To adestroy all the Philistines,
To cut off from bTyre and Sidon
Every ally that is left;
For the Lord is going to destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of cCaphtor.
5 “aBaldness has come upon Gaza;
bAshkelon has been ruined.
O remnant of their valley,
How long will you cgash yourself?
6 “Ah, asword of the Lord,
How long will you not be quiet?
Withdraw into your sheath;
Be at rest and stay still.
7 “How can it be quiet,
When the Lord has agiven it an order?
Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast—
There He has bassigned it.”
Prophecy against Moab
Concerning aMoab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Woe to bNebo, for it has been destroyed;
cKiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;
The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and shattered.
2 “There is praise for Moab no longer;
In aHeshbon they have devised calamity against her:
‘Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!’
You too, Madmen, will be silenced;
The sword will follow after you.
3 “The sound of an outcry from aHoronaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’
4 “Moab is broken,
Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.
5 “For by the ascent of aLuhith
They will ascend with continual weeping;
For at the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the anguished cry of destruction.
6 “aFlee, save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
7 “For because of your atrust in your own achievements and treasures,
Even you yourself will be captured;
And bChemosh will go off into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.
8 “A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the aplateau will be destroyed,
As the Lord has said.
9 “Give awings to Moab,
For she will flee away;
And her cities will become a bdesolation,
Without inhabitants in them.
10 “aCursed be the one who does the Lord’s work bnegligently,
And cursed be the one who restrains his csword from blood.
11 “Moab has been aat ease since his youth;
He has also been bundisturbed, like wine on its dregs,
And he has not been cemptied from vessel to vessel,
Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore he retains his flavor,
And his aroma has not changed.
12 Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars. 13 And Moab will be aashamed of bChemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of cBethel, their confidence.
14 “How can you say, ‘We are amighty warriors,
And men valiant for battle’?
15 “Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities;
His choicest ayoung men have also gone down to the slaughter,”
Declares the bKing, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
16 “The disaster of Moab will asoon come,
And his calamity has swiftly hastened.
17 “Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
Even all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How has the mighty ascepter been broken,
A staff of splendor!’
18 “aCome down from your glory
And sit on the parched ground,
O bdaughter dwelling in cDibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.
19 “Stand by the road and keep watch,
O inhabitant of aAroer;
bAsk him who flees and her who escapes
And say, ‘What has happened?’
20 “Moab has been put to shame, for it has been shattered.
Wail and cry out;
Declare by the aArnon
That Moab has been destroyed.
21 “Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, aJahzah and against bMephaath, 22 against Dibon, Nebo and Beth-diblathaim, 23 against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul and aBeth-meon, 24 against aKerioth, Bozrah and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. 25 The ahorn of Moab has been cut off and his barm broken,” declares the Lord. 26 “aMake him drunk, for he has become barrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock. 27 Now was not Israel a alaughingstock to you? Or was he bcaught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you cshake your head in scorn.
28 “Leave the cities and dwell among the acrags,
O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a bdove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm.
29 “aWe have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—
Of his haughtiness, his bpride, his arrogance and his self‑exaltation.
30 “I know his afury,” declares the Lord,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.
31 “Therefore I will awail for Moab,
Even for all Moab will I cry out;
I will moan for the men of bKir‑heres.
32 “More than the aweeping for bJazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!
Your tendrils stretched across the sea,
They reached to the sea of Jazer;
Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest
The destroyer has fallen.
33 “So agladness and joy are taken away
From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab.
And I have made the wine to bcease from the wine presses;
No one will tread them with shouting,
The shouting will not be shouts of joy.
34 aFrom the outcry at Heshbon even to bElealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from cZoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate. 35 I will make an end of Moab,” declares the Lord, “the one who offers sacrifice on the ahigh place and the one who bburns incense to his gods.
36 “Therefore My aheart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have blost the abundance it produced. 37 For aevery head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and bsackcloth on the loins. 38 On all the ahousetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable bvessel,” declares the Lord. 39 “How shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an aobject of terror to all around him.”
40 For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, one will afly swiftly like an eagle
And bspread out his wings against Moab.
41 “Kerioth has been captured
And the strongholds have been seized,
So the ahearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day
Will be like the heart of a bwoman in labor.
42 “Moab will be adestroyed from being a people
Because he has become barrogant toward the Lord.
43 “aTerror, pit and snare are coming upon you,
O inhabitant of Moab,” declares the Lord.
44 “The one who aflees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of their bpunishment,” declares the Lord.
45 “In the shadow of Heshbon
The fugitives stand without strength;
For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon
And a aflame from the midst of bSihon,
And it has devoured the cforehead of Moab
And the scalps of the riotous revelers.
46 “aWoe to you, Moab!
The people of bChemosh have perished;
For your sons have been taken away captive
And your daughters into captivity.
47 “Yet I will arestore the fortunes of Moab
In the latter days,” declares the Lord.
Thus far the judgment on Moab.
Prophecy against Ammon
Concerning the sons of aAmmon. Thus says the Lord:
“Does Israel have no sons?
Or has he no heirs?
Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad
And his people settled in its cities?
2 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“That I will cause a atrumpet blast of war to be heard
Against bRabbah of the sons of Ammon;
And it will become a desolate heap,
And her ctowns will be set on fire.
Then Israel will take dpossession of his possessors,”
Says the Lord.
3 “Wail, O aHeshbon, for bAi has been destroyed!
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah,
cGird yourselves with sackcloth and lament,
And rush back and forth inside the walls;
For Malcam will dgo into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.
4 “How aboastful you are about the valleys!
Your valley is flowing away,
O bbacksliding daughter
Who trusts in her ctreasures, saying,
‘dWho will come against me?’
5 “Behold, I am going to bring aterror upon you,”
Declares the Lord God of hosts,
“From all directions around you;
And each of you will be bdriven out headlong,
With no one to gather the cfugitives together.
6 “But afterward I will arestore
The fortunes of the sons of Ammon,”
Declares the Lord.
Prophecy against Edom
7 Concerning aEdom.
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Is there no longer any bwisdom in cTeman?
Has good counsel been lost to the prudent?
Has their wisdom decayed?
8 “Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of aDedan,
For I will bring the bdisaster of Esau upon him
At the time I punish him.
9 “aIf grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves came by night,
They would destroy only until they had enough.
10 “But I have astripped Esau bare,
I have uncovered his hiding places
So that he will not be able to conceal himself;
His offspring has been destroyed along with his relatives
And his neighbors, and bhe is no more.
11 “Leave your aorphans behind, I will keep them alive;
And let your bwidows trust in Me.”
12 For thus says the Lord, “Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the acup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be bcompletely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it. 13 For I have asworn by Myself,” declares the Lord, “that bBozrah will become an cobject of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins.”
14 I have aheard a message from the Lord,
And an benvoy is sent among the nations, saying,
“cGather yourselves together and come against her,
And rise up for battle!”
15 “For behold, I have made you small among the nations,
Despised among men.
16 “As for the terror of you,
The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts of the arock,
Who occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as bhigh as an eagle’s,
I will cbring you down from there,” declares the Lord.
17 “Edom will become an aobject of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will bhiss at all its wounds. 18 Like the aoverthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says the Lord, “bno one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it. 19 aBehold, one will come up like a lion from the bthickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is cchosen I shall appoint over it. For who is dlike Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd ewho can stand against Me?”
20 Therefore hear the aplan of the Lord which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture bdesolate because of them. 21 The aearth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea. 22 Behold, He will mount up and aswoop like an eagle and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the bhearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Prophecy against Damascus
23 Concerning aDamascus.
“bHamath and cArpad are put to shame,
For they have heard bad news;
They are ddisheartened.
There is anxiety by the sea,
It ecannot be calmed.
24 “Damascus has become helpless;
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has gripped her;
aDistress and pangs have taken hold of her
Like a woman in childbirth.
25 “How the acity of praise has not been deserted,
The town of My joy!
26 “Therefore, her ayoung men will fall in her streets,
And all the men of war will be silenced in that day,” declares the Lord of hosts.
27 “I will aset fire to the wall of Damascus,
And it will devour the fortified towers of bBen‑hadad.”
Prophecy against Kedar and Hazor
28 Concerning aKedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the Lord,
“Arise, go up to Kedar
And devastate the bmen of the east.
29 “They will take away their tents and their flocks;
They will carry off for themselves
Their tent acurtains, all their goods and their bcamels,
And they will call out to one another, ‘cTerror on every side!’
30 “Run away, flee! Dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Hazor,” declares the Lord;
“For aNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has formed a plan against you
And devised a scheme against you.
31 “Arise, go up against a nation which is aat ease,
Which lives securely,” declares the Lord.
“It has bno gates or bars;
They cdwell alone.
32 “Their camels will become plunder,
And their many cattle for booty,
And I will ascatter to all the winds those who bcut the corners of their hair;
And I will bring their disaster from every side,” declares the Lord.
33 “Hazor will become a ahaunt of jackals,
A desolation forever;
No one will live there,
Nor will a son of man reside in it.”
Prophecy against Elam
34 That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet concerning aElam, bat the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:
35 “Thus says the Lord of hosts,
‘Behold, I am going to abreak the bow of Elam,
The finest of their might.
36 ‘I will bring upon Elam the afour winds
From the four ends of heaven,
And will bscatter them to all these winds;
And there will be no nation
To which the outcasts of Elam will not go.
37 ‘So I will shatter Elam before their enemies
And before those who seek their lives;
And I will abring calamity upon them,
Even My bfierce anger,’ declares the Lord,
‘And I will csend out the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.
38 ‘Then I will set My throne in Elam
And destroy out of it king and princes,’
Declares the Lord.
39 ‘But it will come about in the last days
That I will arestore the fortunes of Elam,’”
Declares the Lord.