A Message Concerning Ammon

¹ Concerning the ⌞Ammonites⌟:¹ Thus says Yahweh, “Are there no sons for Israel? Or is there no heir for him? Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad, and his people dwelled in its towns?

1. Literally “sons of Ammon”

² ⌞Therefore⌟¹ look, days are coming,” ⌞declares⌟² Yahweh, “and I will sound against Rabbah, the ⌞Ammonites⌟,³ the alarm of the war, and it will become as a mound of desolation, and its daughters will burn in the fire. Then Israel will dispossess his dispossessors,” says Yahweh.

1. Literally “To thus”
2. Literally “a declaration of”
3. Literally “sons of Ammon”

³ “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.

⁴ Why do you boast in your valleys? Your valleys¹ are ebbing. O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures, who said, ‘Who will come against me?’

1. Hebrew “valley”

⁵ Look, I am going to bring dread on you,” ⌞declares⌟¹ Lord Yahweh of hosts, “from all your surrounding neighbors. And you will be scattered, each one ⌞before it⌟,² and there is no one who gathers the fugitives.³

1. Literally “a declaration of”
2. Literally “to the face of it”
3. Hebrew “fugitive”

⁶ Yet ⌞afterward⌟¹ I will restore the fortunes² of the ⌞Ammonites⌟,”³ ⌞declares⌟⁴ Yahweh.

1. Literally “after thus”
2. Hebrew “fortune”
3. Literally “sons of Ammon”
4. Literally “a declaration of”

A Message Concerning Edom

⁷ Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel become lost from those who understand? Is their wisdom rotting?

⁸ Flee! Turn back! ⌞Get down low⌟!¹ O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau at the time when I will punish him.

1. Literally “make deep to dwell”

⁹ If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy only ⌞enough for them⌟.¹

1. Literally “their enough”

¹⁰ But I have stripped Esau bare. I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to hide himself. His offspring are devastated, ⌞along with⌟¹ his brothers, and his neighbors, and ⌞he is no more⌟.²

1. Literally “and”
2. Literally “and not he”

¹¹ Leave your orphans. I will let them¹ live. And your widows, let them trust in me.”

1. Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹² For thus says Yahweh, “Look, those ⌞who are not condemned⌟¹ to drink the cup must certainly drink it.² And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.³

1. Literally “who there is not their justice”
2. Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
3. Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹³ For I have sworn by myself,” ⌞declares⌟¹ Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be ⌞everlasting sites of ruins⌟.”²

1. Literally “a declaration of”
2. Literally “sites of ruins of eternity”

¹⁴ I have heard a message from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. “Gather and come against her, and rise for the battle.”

¹⁵ “For look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind.

¹⁶ Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, you who seize the height of the hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down,” ⌞declares⌟¹ Yahweh.

1. Literally “a declaration of”

¹⁷ “And Edom will become as a horror, ⌞everyone who passes by it⌟¹ will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows.

1. Literally “all who passes by it”

¹⁸ As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors,” says Yahweh, “⌞no one⌟¹ will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.

1. Literally “not a man”

¹⁹ Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to ⌞a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream⌟.¹ So ⌞I will chase him away hurriedly⌟² from it. And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who can summon me? And who is this, the shepherd who can stand ⌞before me⌟?”³

1. Literally “a pasture of everflowing”
2. Literally “I will do in an instant I will chase him away”
3. Literally “to the face of me”

²⁰ ⌞Therefore⌟¹ hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom, and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman. ⌞Surely⌟² they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. ⌞Surely⌟³ he will cause to be desolated over them their grazing place.

1. Literally “To thus”
2. Literally “If not”
3. Literally “If not”

²¹ The earth will quake from the sound of their falling. A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at ⌞the Red Sea⌟.¹

1. Hebrew “Sea of Reeds”

²² Look, like an eagle he will go up and he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Bozrah. And the heart of the warriors of Edom will be in that day like the heart of a woman who is in labor.

A Message Concerning Damascus

²³ Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are ashamed, for they have heard bad news; they melt. There is concern in the sea. It is not able to keep quiet.

²⁴ Damascus has grown slack. She has turned away to flee and panic. Anxiety has seized her, and labor pains have grasped her, like a woman in labor.

²⁵ How the city of praise has not been abandoned! The city of my joy!

²⁶ ⌞Therefore⌟¹ her young men will fall in her public squares, and all ⌞the soldiers⌟² will perish in that day,” ⌞declares⌟³ Yahweh of hosts.

1. Literally “To thus”
2. Literally “the men of the battle”
3. Literally “a declaration of”

²⁷ “And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

A Message Concerning Kedar and the Kingdoms of Hazor

²⁸ Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated. Thus says Yahweh: “Rise up, go up against Kedar and destroy the people¹ of the east.

1. Or “sons”

²⁹ They will take their tents, and their flocks, their tent curtains, and all their equipment, and their camels they will carry away for themselves, and they will call to them, ‘Terror is from all around.’

³⁰ Flee! Wander far away! ⌞Get down low⌟!¹ O inhabitants of Hazor,” ⌞declares⌟² Yahweh. “For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you. And he has schemed³ a scheme⁴ against you.

1. Literally “Make deep to dwell”
2. Literally “a declaration of”
3. Or “planned”
4. Or “plan”

³¹ Rise up, go up against a nation which is at ease, living ⌞securely⌟,”¹ ⌞declares⌟² Yahweh. “There are no gates and there are no bars³ for them, they dwell alone.

1. Literally “with confidence”
2. Literally “a declaration of”
3. Hebrew “bar”

³² And their camels will become as plunder, and the multitude of their livestock as spoil. And I will scatter to every wind those who are trimmed to the side, and from ⌞every side⌟¹ I will bring their disaster,” ⌞declares⌟² Yahweh.

1. Literally “all his sides”
2. Literally “a declaration of”

³³ “And Hazor will become as a lair of jackals, a waste forever; no one will live there, and no son of humankind will dwell as an alien in it.”

A Message Concerning Elam

³⁴ The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the king of Judah, ⌞saying⌟,¹

1. Literally “to say”

³⁵ “Thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Look, I am going to break the bow of Elam, the first and best of their might.

³⁶ And I will bring to Elam four winds, from the four corners of heaven, and I will scatter them to all these winds, and there will not be a nation where the scattered people of Elam will not go.

³⁷ So I will shatter Elam ⌞before⌟¹ their enemies, and ⌞before⌟² the seekers of their life. And I will bring disaster upon them, ⌞my burning anger⌟,³’ ⌞declares⌟⁴ Yahweh. ‘And I will send after them the sword until I have destroyed them.

1. Literally “to the face of”
2. Literally “to the face of”
3. Literally “the blaze of my nose”
4. Literally “a declaration of”

³⁸ And I will set my throne in Elam and I will destroy from there king and officials,’ ⌞declares⌟¹ Yahweh.

1. Literally “a declaration of”

³⁹ ‘⌞And then⌟¹ in the last of the days I will restore the fortunes² of Elam,’ ⌞declares⌟³ Yahweh.”

1. Literally “And it will happen”
2. Hebrew “fortune”
3. Literally “a declaration of”