and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall
be in derision.
048:027 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves?
for as often as you speak of him, you wag the head.
048:028 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock;
and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth
of the abyss.
048:029 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud;
his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the
haughtiness of his heart.
048:030 I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings
have worked nothing.
048:031 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab:
for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.
048:032 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you,
vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea,
they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits
and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
048:033 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field
and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease
from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting;
the shouting shall be no shouting.
048:034 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz
have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim,
to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also
shall become desolate.
048:035 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh,
him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense
to his gods.
048:036 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my
heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres:
therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.
048:037 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped:
on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
048:038 On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets of it there is
lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel
in which none delights, says Yahweh.
048:039 How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab
turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision
and a terror to all who are round about him.
048:040 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle,
and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
048:041 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart
of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart
of a woman in her pangs.
048:042 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has
magnified himself against Yahweh.
048:043 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant
of Moab, says Yahweh.
048:044 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit;
and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of
their visitation, says Yahweh.
048:045 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;
for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from
the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab,
and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
048:046 Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons
are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
048:047 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days,
says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
049:001 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel
no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad,
and his people well in the cities of it?
049:002 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause
an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon;
and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall
be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did
possess him, says Yahweh.
049:003 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah,
gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth
among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity,
his priests and his princes together.
049:004 Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding
daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall
come to me?
049:005 Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven
out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather
together the fugitives.
049:006 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children
of Ammon, says Yahweh.
049:007 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman?
is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
049:008 Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan;
for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I
shall visit him.
049:009 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy
until they had enough?
049:010 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places,
and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed,
and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
049:011 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive;
and let your widows trust in me.
049:012 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain
to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who
shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished,
but you shall surely drink.
049:013 For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall
become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse;
and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes.
049:014 I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent
among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together,
and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
049:015 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,
and despised among men.
049:016 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height
of the hill: though you should make your nest as high
as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
049:017 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.
049:018 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there,
neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
049:019 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan
against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run
away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it:
for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is
the shepherd who will stand before me?
049:020 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against
the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away,
[even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make
their habitation desolate over them.
049:021 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry,
the noise which is heard in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}.
049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread
out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty
men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman
in her pangs.
049:023 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.
049:024 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.
049:025 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all
the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,
says Yahweh of Armies.
049:027 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall
devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
049:028 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you,
go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
049:029 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!
049:030 Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants
of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken
counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.
049:031 Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells
without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars,
that dwell alone.
049:032 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 hair] cut off; and I will bring
their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
049:033 Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever:
no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man sojourn therein.
049:034 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,
in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
049:035 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
the chief of their might.
049:036 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.
049:037 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 Yahweh; and I will send
the sword after them, until I have consumed them;
049:038 and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there
king and princes, says Yahweh.
049:039 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back
the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.
050:001 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land
of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
050:002 Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up
a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken,
Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images
are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.
050:003 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her,
which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein:
they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal.
050:004 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children
of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together;
they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek
Yahweh their God.
050:005 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned
toward it, [saying], Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh
in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
050:006 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused
them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains;
they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten
their resting place.
050:007 All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said,
We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh,
the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope
of their fathers.
050:008 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land
of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
050:009 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon
a company of great nations from the north country; and they
shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall
be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man;
none shall return in vain.
050:010 Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall
be satisfied, says Yahweh.
050:011 Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder
my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads
out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;
050:012 your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall
be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations,
a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
050:013 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited,
but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon
shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
050:014 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about,
all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows:
for she has sinned against Yahweh.
050:015 Shout against her round about: she has submitted herself;
her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down;
for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her;
as she has done, do to her.
050:016 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle
in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword
they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee
everyone to his own land.
050:017 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away:
first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
050:018 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I
will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished
the king of Assyria.
050:019 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed
on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on
the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
050:020 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity
of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none;
and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found:
for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
050:021 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against
the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them,
says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
050:022 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
050:023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken!
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
050:024 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon,
and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught,
because you have striven against Yahweh.
050:025 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons
of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work
[to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.
050:026 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses;
cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing
of her be left.
050:027 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter:
woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
050:028 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land
of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God,
the vengeance of his temple.
050:029 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend
the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape:
recompense her according to her work; according to all that she
has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh,
against the Holy One of Israel.
050:030 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men
of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.
050:031 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
050:032 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up;
and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour
all who are round about him.
050:033 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the
children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took
them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest
to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
050:035 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants
of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.
050:036 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools;
a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
050:037 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots,
and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her;
and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures,
and they shall be robbed.
050:038 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up;
for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
050:039 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves
shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein:
and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it
be lived in from generation to generation.
050:040 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there,
neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
050:041 Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation
and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts
of the earth.
050:042 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy;
their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses,
everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you,
daughter of Babylon.
050:043 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands
wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs
as of a woman in travail.
050:044 Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from
the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation:
for I will suddenly make them run away from it;
and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it:
for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is
the shepherd who can stand before me?
050:045 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken
against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against
the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away,
[even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make
their habitation desolate over them.
050:046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles,
and the cry is heard among the nations.
051:001 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
051:002 I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her;
and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble
they shall be against her round about.
051:003 Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow,
and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail:
and don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly
all her army.
051:004 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
and thrust through in her streets.
051:005 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh
of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against
the Holy One of Israel.
051:006 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life;
don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time
of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
051:007 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made
all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations are mad.
051:008 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her;
take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
051:009 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:
forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country;
for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even
to the skies.
051:010 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.
051:011 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields:
Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes;
because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it:
for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
051:012 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the
watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes;
for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke
concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
051:013 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end
is come, the measure of your covetousness.
051:014 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I
will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they
shall lift up a shout against you.
051:015 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world
by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched
out the heavens:
051:016 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind
out of his treasuries.
051:017 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge;
every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten
image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
051:018 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
051:019 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former
of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance:
Yahweh of Armies is his name.
051:020 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I
break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
051:021 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
051:022 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who
rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman;
and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth;
and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
051:023 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his
yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces
governors and deputies.
051:024 I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,
says Yahweh.
051:025 Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh,
which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand
on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you
a burnt mountain.
051:026 They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone
for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.
051:027 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among
the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together
against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz:
appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up
as the rough canker worm.
051:028 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes,
the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all
the land of their dominion.
051:029 The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh
against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon
a desolation, without inhabitant.
051:030 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight,
they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed;
they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire;
her bars are broken.
051:031 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger
to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city
is taken on every quarter:
051:032 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned
with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
051:033 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter
of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it
is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall
come for her.
051:034 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has
crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster,
swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies;
he has cast me out.
051:035 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon,
shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on
the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
051:036 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause,
and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea,
and make her fountain dry.
051:037 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals,
an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
051:038 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl
as lions' cubs.
051:039 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make
them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake, says Yahweh.
051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams
with male goats.
051:041 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized!
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
051:042 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude