These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 49
Tanakh 39 verses
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Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith : Hath no sons? Hath he no heir? Why then doth Malcam take possession of , And his people dwell in the cities thereof?
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Ezekiel 25:2-10 Deuteronomy 23:3 Ezekiel 21:28-32 Zephaniah 2:8-11 2 Chronicles 20:1 Amos 1:13-15 Jeremiah 25:21 Genesis 19:38 Nehemiah 4:7 2 Kings 10:33 Psalm 83:7 1 Samuel 11:1-3 Jeremiah 25:9 Jeremiah 49:28 Deuteronomy 2:19 Nehemiah 13:1-2 Jeremiah 48:1 Judges 11:13-15 Jeremiah 27:3 2 Chronicles 20:23 Judges 10:7-8 Nehemiah 2:19 2 Kings 24:2 Psalm 9:6 Jeremiah 49:7 Jeremiah 49:23 - 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith , That I will cause an alarm of war to be heard Against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; And it shall become a desolate mound, And her daughters shall be burned with fire; Then shall dispossess them that did dispossess him, Saith .
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Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is undone; Cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; Lament, and run to and fro among the folds; For Malcam shall go into captivity, His priests and his princes together.
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Jeremiah 48:7 Jeremiah 48:37 Isaiah 15:2 Jeremiah 46:25 1 Kings 11:5 1 Kings 11:33 2 Kings 23:13 Jeremiah 4:8 Isaiah 16:7 Zephaniah 1:5 Job 30:3-7 Isaiah 32:11-12 Jeremiah 48:2 Isaiah 23:6 Isaiah 14:31 Isaiah 13:6 Jeremiah 6:26 James 5:1 Amos 1:15 Joshua 8:28 Jeremiah 48:20 Jeremiah 49:1 Isaiah 23:1 Jeremiah 51:8 - 4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, Thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? That didst trust in thy treasures: ‘Who shall come unto me?’
- 5 Behold, I will bring a terror upon thee, Saith of hosts, From all that are round about thee; And ye shall be driven out every man right forth, And there shall be none to gather up him that wandereth.
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But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, Saith .
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Of . Thus saith of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the prudent? Is their wisdom vanished?
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Genesis 25:30 Genesis 36:11 Jeremiah 49:20 Genesis 36:15 Jeremiah 25:21 Amos 1:11-12 Ezekiel 25:12-14 Job 2:11 Numbers 24:17-18 Jeremiah 18:18 Genesis 36:34 Joel 3:19 Daniel 11:41 Habakkuk 3:3 Genesis 27:41 Ezekiel 35:1-15 Deuteronomy 23:7 Genesis 36:8 1 Chronicles 1:53 Job 4:1 Job 5:12-14 Obadiah 1:1-21 Numbers 20:14-21 Isaiah 63:1-6 Jeremiah 25:9 Isaiah 29:14 Psalm 83:4-10 Psalm 137:7 Romans 1:22-23 Isaiah 34:1-17 Isaiah 19:11-13 Malachi 1:3-4 - 8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; For I do bring the calamity of upon him, The time that I shall punish him.
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If grape-gatherers came to thee, Would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, Would they not destroy till they had enough?
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But I have made bare, I have uncovered his secret places, And he shall not be able to hide himself; His seed is spoiled, and his brethren, And his neighbours, and he is not.
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- 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them, And let thy widows trust in Me.
- 12 For thus saith : Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.
- 13 For I have sworn by Myself, saith , that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a ; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
- 14 I have heard a message from , And an ambassador is sent among the nations: ‘Gather yourselves together, and come against her, And rise up to the battle.’
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For, behold, I make thee small among the nations, And despised among men.
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- 16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, Even the pride of thy , O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, That holdest the height of the hill; Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith .
- 17 And shall become an astonishment; Every one that passeth by it Shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And the neighbour cities thereof, saith , No man shall abide there, Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
- 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion From the thickets of the Against the strong habitation; For I will suddenly make him run away from it, And whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it; For who is like Me? and who will appoint Me a time? And who is that shepherd that will stand before Me?
- 20 Therefore ye the counsel of , That He hath taken against ; And His purposes, that He hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them away, Surely their habitation shall be appalled at them.
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The earth quaketh at the noise of their fall; There is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.
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- 22 Behold, he shall come up and swoop down as the vulture, And spread out his wings against Bozrah; And the of the mighty men of at that day Shall be as the of a woman in her pangs.
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Of . Hamath is ashamed, and Arpad; For they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away; There is trouble in the sea; It cannot be quiet.
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2 Kings 18:34 Isaiah 10:9 Isaiah 57:20 Genesis 14:15 Nahum 2:10 2 Kings 19:13 Genesis 15:2 Numbers 13:21 Amos 6:2 Joshua 2:11 Isaiah 11:11 Isaiah 13:7 Deuteronomy 20:8 Zechariah 9:1-2 Amos 1:3-5 2 Kings 17:24 Acts 27:20 Joshua 14:8 2 Samuel 17:10 2 Chronicles 16:2 Acts 9:2 1 Kings 11:24 2 Samuel 8:9 Psalm 107:26-27 Isaiah 17:1-3 Luke 8:23-24 Isaiah 37:13 2 Corinthians 11:32 Luke 21:25-26 - 24 is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, And trembling hath seized on her; Anguish and pangs have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
- 25 How is the city of left unrepaired, The city of my joy?’
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Therefore her young men shall fall in her broad places, And all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, Saith of hosts.
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And I will kindle a fire in the wall of , And it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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- 28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar of smote. Thus saith : Arise ye, go up against Kedar, And spoil the children 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 proclaim against them a terror on every side.
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Flee ye, flit far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith ; For Nebuchadrezzar of hath taken counsel against you, And hath conceived a purpose against you.
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- 31 Arise, get you up against a nation that is at ease, That dwelleth without care, saith ; That have neither gates nor bars, That dwell alone.
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And their camels shall be a booty, And the multitude of their cattle a spoil; And I will scatter unto all winds them that have the corners polled; And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith .
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- 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, A desolation for ever; no man shall abide there, Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
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The of that came to the concerning Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah of , saying:
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Thus saith of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam The chief of their might.
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- 36 And I will bring against Elam the four winds From the four quarters of , And will scatter them toward all those winds; And there shall be no nation whither the dispersed of Elam shall not come.
- 37 And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, And before them that seek their life; And I will bring evil upon them, Even My fierce anger, saith ; And I will send the sword after them, Till I have consumed them;
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And I will set My throne in Elam, And will destroy from thence and princes, saith .
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- 39 But it shall come to pass in the end of days, That I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith .