1 dispossessed Gad
and his people settled in its towns?
2 of Rabbah!
Put on sackcloth,
lament, and slash yourselves with whips!
For Milcom shall go into exile,
with his priests and his attendants.
4
“Who will attack me?”
5
who hold the height of the hill.
Although you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.
17 away from it, and I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
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that cannot be quiet.
24Damascus has become feeble; she turned to flee,
and panic seized her;
anguish and pangs seize her,
as of a woman in labor.
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the town of my joy?
26 Jer 50.30; 51.4; Am 4.10 Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares,
and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, says the Lord of hosts.
27 1 Kings 15.18–20; Jer 43.12; Am 1.3–5 And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.
Judgment on Kedar and Hazor28 Isa 11.14; 21.16, 17; Jer 2.10; Ezek 27.21 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon defeated.
Thus says the Lord:
Rise up; advance against Kedar!
Destroy the people of the east!
29 Jer 6.25; 20.3, 10; 46.5 They take their tents and their flocks,
their curtains and all their goods;
they carry off their camels for themselves,
and a cry shall go up: “Terror is all around!”
30 Jer 25.9 Flee; wander far away; hide in deep places,
O inhabitants of Hazor! says the Lord.
For King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon
has made a plan against you
and formed a purpose against you.
31 Deut 33.28; Isa 47.8; Ezek 38.11 Rise up; advance against a nation at ease,
that lives secure, says the Lord,
that has no gates or bars,
that lives alone.
32 Jer 9.26; 25.23; Ezek 12.14, 15 Their camels shall become plunder;
their herds of cattle a spoil.
I will scatter to every wind
those who have shaved temples,
and I will bring calamity
against them from every side, says the Lord.
33 Jer 10.22; Zeph 2.9, 13–15 Hazor shall become a lair of jackals,
an everlasting waste;
no one shall live there,
nor shall anyone settle in it.
Judgment on Elam34 2 Kings 24.17, 18; Jer 28.1; Ezek 32.24 The word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah.
35 Isa 22.6; Jer 51.56 Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might,
36Ezek 5.10; Am 9.9; Rev 7.1and I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and I will scatter them to all these winds, and there shall be no nation to which the exiles from Elam shall not come.
37Jer 6.19; 8.9; 9.16; 17.18; 30.24I will terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life; I will bring disaster upon them, my fierce anger, says the Lord. I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them,
38and I will set my throne in Elam and destroy their king and officials, says the Lord.
39But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, says the Lord.
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