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To the sons of Ammon, thus says Jehovah: Has Israel no sons, has◦ he no heir◦? Wherefore then does their* king possess Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
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Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says◦ Jehovah, and I will cause a blast of war to be heard in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon; and it shall be for a mound of desolation, and her daughters shall be kindled with fire; and Israel shall be··an··heir◦ with his heirs◦, says◦ Jehovah.
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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is devastated; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; wail, and run··around between the fences; for their king shall go into exile, and his priests and his princes together.*
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How praisest thou thyself in the valleys? Thy valley has flowed away*, O backsliding daughter who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
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Behold, I will bring a dread on thee, says◦ the Lord Jehovih* of Armies, from all those who be around thee; and you shall be expelled each··man◦ from before him; and none shall bring··together the fugitive.
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And afterwards I will return the captivity of the sons of Ammon, says◦ Jehovah.
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to▵ Edom, thus says Jehovah of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman, is counsel perished from those who understand? Has their wisdom become putrid?
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Flee ye, O ye who dwell in Dedan; for they turn◦ themselves back, they cause themselves to dwell in the deep; for I will bring the downfall of Esau on him at the time that I will visit him.
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If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some grapes for gleaning? If thieves in the night, they will destroy sufficiency.
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For I have made· Esau ·bare, I have revealed his hiding··places, and he shall not be··able to hide··away◦; his seed is devastated, and his brothers, and his neighbors◦, and he is not.
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Leave thine orphans, I will make· them ·live; and let thy widows trust in Me.
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For thus says Jehovah: Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, drinking they have drunken; and art thou he who being rendered··innocent shall be rendered··innocent? Thou shalt not be rendered··innocent, for drinking thou shalt drink.
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For I have promised Myself, says◦ Jehovah, that Bozrah shall be for a desolation, for a reproach, for a waste, and for a reviling; and all her cities shall be eternal waste places.
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I have heard a report from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent unto the nations, saying, Bring· ye ·together, and come against her, and rise··up to the battle.
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For, behold, I will put◦ thee as small among◦ the nations, and despised among◦ man.
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Thy horror has beguiled thee, the presumptuousness of thy heart, O thou who inhabitest the fissures of the rock◦, who occupiest the height of the hill; because◦ thou makest· thy nest ·lofty as the eagle, I will bring· thee ·down from thence, says◦ Jehovah.
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Also Edom shall be a desolation; every one that passes··by it shall be desolated, and shall hiss at all the smitings thereof.
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As in the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah and her neighboring◦ cities, says Jehovah, no man◦ shall dwell there, neither shall a son of man sojourn in her.
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Behold, he shall come··up as a lion from the pride of the Jordan to▵ the home of Ethan*; for I will in a moment make him run away from her. And who is chosen that I may appoint over··her? For who is like Me? And who will cause Me to congregate, and who is this shepherd that will stand before Me?
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Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, that He has counseled against Edom; and His thoughts, that He has reckoned against those who dwell in Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock shall drag· them ·out; surely He shall make their homes desolate upon them.
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The earth quaked at the voice of their fall, at the cry the voice thereof was heard in the Suph Sea.
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Behold, as an eagle* he shall go··up and soar, and spread his wings over Bozrah; and at that◦ day shall the heart of the heroes of Edom be as the heart of a woman in· her ·adversity.
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To Damascus: Chamath and Arpad are ashamed; and they have heard evil reports; they are dissolved; there is anxiety in the sea; it is· not ·able to be··quiet.
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Damascus is··slack, and turns· her ·face to flee, and horror◦ has held· her ·firmly; adversity and pangs possess◦ her, as a woman giving··birth.
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How is the city of praise not forsaken, the walled··city of My joy!
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Therefore her young··men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be··still in that day, says◦ Jehovah of Armies.
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And I will kindle a fire on◦ the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
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To Kedar, and to the kingdoms of Chazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus says Jehovah: Arise, go· ye ·up to▵ Kedar, and devastate the sons of the east.
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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 call over to them, Fear◦ is all around.
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Flee, Flee··away exceedingly, dwell deep, O ye that dwell in Chazor, says◦ Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a thought against you.
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Arise, go··up to▵ the tranquil nation, who dwells securely, says◦ Jehovah, which has◦ neither doors nor bars, alone they shall abide◦.
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And their camels shall be for plunder, and the multitude◦ of their livestock for a spoil; and I will disperse them to every wind, those who are of quarters clipped··off; and from all the crossings thereof I will bring their downfall, says◦ Jehovah.
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And Chazor shall be for an abode of dragons, a desolation even··to eternity; no man◦ shall dwell there, nor a son of man sojourn in her.
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The word of Jehovah was to▵ Jeremiah◦ the prophet concerning▵ Elam in the beginning◦ of the kingdom of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
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Thus says Jehovah of Armies; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the beginning of their might.
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And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will winnow them toward all those winds; and there shall not be a nation whither those expelled of Elam shall not come.
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For I will cause Elam to be··dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their soul; and I will bring evil upon them, even My fierce anger, says◦ Jehovah; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed· them ·all:
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and I will set My throne in Elam, and will make··to··perish from thence the king and the princes, says◦ Jehovah.
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But it shall be in the last days, that I will return the captivity of Elam, says◦ Jehovah.
