Jeremiah 49:23-39 ▼

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 can't 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 shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,| says the LORD.

27 |I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.|

28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. |Thus says the LORD: 'Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the people of the east.'

29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, 'Terror on every side.'

30 Flee, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor,| says the LORD; |for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.|

31 |Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says the LORD; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.

32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them,| says the LORD.

33 |Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live in it.|

34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

35 |Thus says the LORD: 'Look, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

36 On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

37 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,' says the LORD; 'and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;

38 and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and officials,' says the LORD.

39 'But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam,' says the LORD.|