Jeremiah 49

and his people dwell in its cities?

says Yahweh.

his priests and his princes together.

saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.

says Yahweh.

Has their wisdom vanished?

for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.

wouldn’t they steal until they had enough?

and he is no more.

Let your widows trust in me.”

For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.

For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

Rise up to the battle!”

and despised among men.

I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

and will hiss at all its plagues.

neither will any son of man live therein.

Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.

The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

It can’t be quiet.

as of a woman in travail.

the city of my joy?

says Yahweh of Armies.

and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”

and destroy the children of the east.

and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’

and has conceived a purpose against you.

that dwells alone.

says Yahweh.

neither will any son of man live therein.”

Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

the chief of their might.

There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.

until I have consumed them.

and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says Yahweh.

that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says Yahweh.”