Jeremiah 49:28-39 ▼

28 To Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon destroyed: This is what the LORD says: |Arise, go against Kedar! Plunder the people of the east!

29 Take their tents and their flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. Take their camels away from them. Cry out against them, 'Terror is all around!'

30 Flee! Run away quickly! Go to a remote place to stay, residents of Hazor,| declares the LORD. |For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has formed a plan and devised a strategy against them.

31 |Arise, go up against a nation at ease, living securely,| declares the LORD, |without gates or bars, living alone.

32 Their camels will become booty, their many herds will become spoil. I'll scatter to the winds those who shave the corners of their beards, and I'll bring disaster on them from every side,| declares the LORD.

33 |Hazor will become a dwelling place for jackals, a perpetual wasteland. No one will live there; no human being will reside in it.|

34 This is what came as a message from the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah:

35 This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: |Look, I'm going to break the bow of Elam, the finest of their troops.

36 I'll bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I'll scatter them to all these winds. There will be no nation to which the exiles from Elam won't go.

37 I'll terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek to kill them. I'll bring on them disaster and become fiercely angry at them,| declares the LORD. |I'll send the sword after them, until I've made an end of them.

38 I'll put my throne in Elam, and destroy the king and the officials there,| declares the LORD.

39 |But in the latter days I'll restore the fortunes of Elam,| declares the LORD.