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1 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 1shattered.
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, 1Madmen, will be silenced;
The sword will follow after you.
3 “The sound of an outcry from aHoronaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’
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 1anguished 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.
For she will 2flee 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 1its dregs,
And he has not been cemptied from vessel to vessel,
Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore 2he 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 1his 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 1men have gone up to 2his cities;
His choicest 3ayoung 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 1ascepter been broken,
A staff of splendor!’
18 “aCome down from your glory
And sit 1on 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 1shattered.
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 1become barrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will 2wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.
27 “Now was not Israel a alaughingstock to you? Or was he 1bcaught 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 1his 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;
1I 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 1raised 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 1bburns incense to his gods.
36 “Therefore My aheart 1wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also 1wails 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 1there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable bvessel,” declares the Lord.
39 “How 1shattered 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.”
“Behold, one will afly swiftly like an eagle
And bspread out his wings against Moab.
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 1become 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.
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 1riotous 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 1fortunes of Moab
In the 2latter days,” declares the Lord.
Thus far the judgment on Moab.
1 Concerning the sons of aAmmon. Thus says the Lord:
“Does Israel have no sons?
Or has he no heirs?
Why then has 1Malcam 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 1atrumpet 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 1Malcam 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 1God of hosts,
“From all directions around you;
And each of you will be bdriven out 2headlong,
With no one to gather the cfugitives together.
6 “But afterward I will arestore
The 1fortunes of the sons of Ammon,”
Declares the Lord.
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 1will bring the bdisaster of Esau upon him
At the time I 2punish him.
9 “aIf grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves came by night,
They would destroy only 1until 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 1offspring has been destroyed along with his 2relatives
And his neighbors, and bhe is no more.
11 “Leave your 1aorphans behind, I will keep them alive;
And let your bwidows trust in Me.”
12 For thus says the Lord, “Behold, those 1who 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.
The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts of 1the 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 1bthickets of the Jordan against 2a 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 1pasture 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 1Red Sea.
22 Behold, 1He will mount up and aswoop like an eagle and spread out His wings 2against Bozrah; and the bhearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
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 1the 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 1silenced in that day,” declares the Lord of hosts.
27 “I will aset fire to the wall of Damascus,
And it will devour the 1fortified 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 1bmen 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.”
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 1finest 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 1shatter 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 1out of it king and princes,’
Declares the Lord.
39 ‘But it will come about in the last days
That I will arestore the 1fortunes of Elam,’ ”
Declares the Lord.
1 The word which the Lord spoke concerning aBabylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
2 “aDeclare and proclaim among the nations.
Proclaim it and blift up a standard.
Do not conceal it but say,
‘cBabylon has been captured,
dBel has been put to shame, 1Marduk has been 2shattered;
Her eimages have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.’
3 “For a nation has come up against her out of the anorth; it will make her land ban object of horror, and there will be cno inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off, they have gone away!
4 “In those days and at that time,” declares the Lord, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah aas well; they will go along bweeping as they go, and it will be cthe Lord their God they will seek.
5 “They will aask for the way to Zion, turning their faces 1in its direction; 2they 3will come that they may join themselves to the Lord in an beverlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
6 “My people have become alost sheep;
bTheir shepherds have led them astray.
They have made them turn aside on the cmountains;
They have gone along from mountain to hill
And have forgotten their dresting place.
7 “All who came upon them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, ‘aWe are not guilty,
Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the bhabitation of righteousness,
Even the Lord, the chope of their fathers.’
8 “Wander away from the amidst of Babylon
And 1go forth from the land of the Chaldeans;
Be also like male goats 2at the head of the flock.
9 “For behold, I am going to aarouse and bring up against Babylon
A horde of great nations from the land of the north,
And they will draw up their battle lines against her;
From there she will be taken captive.
Their arrows will be like 1an expert warrior
Who does not return empty-handed.
10 “1aChaldea will become plunder;
All who plunder her will have enough,” declares the Lord.
11 “Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
O you who apillage My heritage,
Because you skip about 1like a threshing bheifer
And neigh like 2stallions,
12 Your amother 1will be greatly ashamed,
She who gave you birth 1will be humiliated.
Behold, she will be the least of the nations,
A bwilderness, a parched land and a desert.
13 “Because of the indignation of the Lord she will anot be inhabited,
But she will be bcompletely desolate;
Everyone who passes by Babylon cwill be horrified
And will hiss because of all her wounds.
14 “Draw up your battle lines against Babylon on every side,
All you who 1bend the bow;
Shoot at her, do not be sparing with your arrows,
For she has asinned against the Lord.
15 “Raise your battle cry against her on every side!
She has agiven 1herself up, her pillars have fallen,
Her bwalls have been torn down.
For this is the cvengeance of the Lord:
Take vengeance on her;
dAs she has done to others, so do to her.
16 “Cut off the asower from Babylon
And the one who wields the sickle at the time of harvest;
From before 1the bsword of the oppressor
cThey will each turn back to his own people
And they will each flee to his own land.
17 “Israel is a ascattered 1flock, the blions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the cking of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is dNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
18 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I apunished the king of Assyria.
19 ‘And I will abring Israel back to his pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his 1desire will be satisfied in the bhill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
20 ‘In those days and at that time,’ declares the Lord, ‘search will be made for the iniquity of Israel, but athere will be none; and for the sins of Judah, but they will not be found; for I will pardon those bwhom I leave as a remnant.’
21 “Against the land of 1Merathaim, go up against it,
And against the inhabitants of 2aPekod.
Slay and 3utterly destroy them,” declares the Lord,
“And do according to all that I have commanded you.
22 “The anoise of battle is in the land,
And great destruction.
23 “How the ahammer of the whole earth
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!
24 “I aset a snare for you and you were also bcaught, O Babylon,
While you yourself were not aware;
You have been found and also seized
Because you have engaged in cconflict with the Lord.”
25 The Lord has opened His armory
And has brought forth the aweapons of His indignation,
For it is a bwork of the Lord 1God of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come to her from the 1farthest border;
aOpen up her barns,
Pile her up like heaps
Let nothing be left to her.
27 aPut all her young bulls to the sword;
Let them bgo down to the slaughter!
Woe be upon them, for their cday has come,
The time of their punishment.
28 There is a asound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon,
To declare in Zion the bvengeance of the Lord our God,
Vengeance for His ctemple.
29 “Summon 1many against Babylon,
All those who 2bend the bow:
Encamp against her on every side,
Let there be no escape3.
Repay her according to her work;
aAccording to all that she has done, so do to her;
For she has become barrogant against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
30 “Therefore her ayoung men will fall in her streets,
And all her men of war will be 1bsilenced in that day,” declares the Lord.
31 “Behold, aI am against you, O 1arrogant one,”
Declares the Lord 2God of hosts,
“For your day has come,
The time 3when I will punish you.
32 “The 1aarrogant one will stumble and fall
With no one to raise him up;
And I will bset fire to his cities
And it will devour all his environs.”
33 Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“The sons of Israel are oppressed,
And the sons of Judah as well;
And aall who took them captive have held them fast,
They have refused to let them go.
34 “Their aRedeemer is strong, bthe Lord of hosts is His name;
He will vigorously cplead their case
So that He may dbring rest to 1the earth,
But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 “A asword against the Chaldeans,” declares the Lord,
“And against the inhabitants of Babylon
And against her bofficials and her cwise men!
36 “A sword against the aoracle priests, and they will become fools!
A sword against her bmighty men, and they will be 1cshattered!
37 “A sword against 1their ahorses and against 1their chariots
And against all the 2bforeigners who are in the midst of her,
And they will become cwomen!
A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!
38 “A 1adrought on her waters, and they will be dried up!
For it is a land of bidols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols.
39 “Therefore the adesert creatures will live there along with the jackals;
The ostriches also will live in it,
And it will bnever again be inhabited
Or dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 “As when God overthrew aSodom
And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the Lord,
“No man will live there,
Nor will any son of man reside in it.
41 “Behold, a people is coming afrom the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.
42 “They aseize their bow and javelin;
They are bcruel and have no mercy.
Their cvoice roars like the sea;
And they ride on dhorses,
eMarshalled like a man for the battle
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 “The aking of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands hang limp;
bDistress has gripped him,
Agony like a woman in childbirth.
44 “aBehold, one will come up like a lion from the 1thicket of the Jordan to 2a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make them run away from it, and whoever is bchosen I will appoint over it. For who is clike Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can dstand before Me?”
45 Therefore hear the aplan of the Lord which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: bsurely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their 1pasture desolate because of them.
46 At the 1shout, “Babylon has been seized!” the aearth is shaken, and an boutcry is heard among the nations.
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