Jeremiah 49 (NET)

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Jeremiah 49:1¹The Lord spoke about the Ammonites: “Do you think there are not any people of the nation of Israel remaining? Do you think there are not any of them remaining to reinherit their land? Is that why you people who worship the god Milcom have taken possession of the territory of Gad and live in his cities?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 1:13-15 Deut 23:3 Ezek 25:2-10 Zeph 2:8-11 2 Chr 20:1 Ezek 21:28-32 Jer 25:21 Jer 49:7 1 Sam 11:1-3 2 Chr 20:23

Jeremiah 49:2²Because you did that, I, the Lord, affirm that a time is coming when I will make Rabbah, the capital city of Ammon, hear the sound of the battle cry. It will become a mound covered with ruins. Its villages will be burned to the ground. Then Israel will take back its land from those who took their land from them. I, the Lord, affirm it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:19 Deut 3:11 Ezek 21:20 2 Sam 11:1 Amos 1:14 Ezek 25:4-6 2 Sam 12:27-29 Ezek 16:46-55 Isa 14:1-3 Jer 49:1

Jeremiah 49:3³Wail, you people in Heshbon, because Ai in Ammon is destroyed. Cry out in anguish, you people in the villages surrounding Rabbah. Put on sackcloth and cry out in mourning. Run about covered with gashes. For your god Milcom will go into exile along with his priests and officials.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 48:7 Isa 15:2 Jer 48:37 1 Kgs 11:33 1 Kgs 11:5 2 Kgs 23:13 Jer 4:8 Jer 46:25 Amos 1:15 Isa 13:6

Jeremiah 49:4⁴Why do you brag about your great power? Your power is ebbing away, you rebellious people of Ammon, who trust in your riches and say, ‘Who would dare to attack us?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:17 Jer 21:13 Jer 9:23 Jer 3:14 Jer 48:7 Ps 49:6 Ps 52:7 Ps 62:10 Ezek 28:4-7 Hos 4:16

Jeremiah 49:5⁵I will bring terror on you from every side,” says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “You will be scattered in every direction. No one will gather the fugitives back together.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 46:5 Jer 49:29 2 Kgs 19:7 2 Kgs 7:6-7 Amos 4:3 Isa 16:3 Jer 15:8 Jer 20:4 Jer 48:41-44 Job 15:21

Jeremiah 49:6⁶Yet in days to come I will reverse Ammon’s ill fortune.” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 49:39 Jer 48:47 Ezek 16:53 Isa 19:18-23 Isa 23:18 Jer 46:26

Jeremiah 49:7⁷The Lord of Heaven’s Armies spoke about Edom: “Is wisdom no longer to be found in Teman? Can Edom’s counselors not give her any good advice? Has all their wisdom turned bad?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 1:11-12 Ezek 25:12-14 Gen 25:30 Gen 36:15 Jer 25:21 Jer 49:20 Gen 36:11 Job 2:11 1 Chr 1:53 Dan 11:41

Jeremiah 49:8⁸Turn and flee! Take up refuge in remote places, you people who live in Dedan. For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau. I have decided it is time for me to punish them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 25:23 Jer 46:21 Isa 21:13 Jer 49:30 1 Sam 13:6 Amos 9:1-3 Isa 2:21 Jer 48:28 Jer 48:44 Jer 48:6

Jeremiah 49:9⁹If grape pickers came to pick your grapes, would they not leave a few grapes behind? If robbers came at night, would they not pillage only what they needed?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Obad 1:5-6 Isa 17:6

Jeremiah 49:10¹⁰But I will strip everything away from Esau’s descendants. I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide. Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed. Not one of them will be left!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 17:14 Mal 1:3-4 Amos 9:3 Isa 14:20-22 Isa 45:3 Jer 23:24 Obad 1:9 Ps 37:28 Ps 37:35-36 Rom 9:13

Jeremiah 49:11¹¹Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows, too, can depend on me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 68:5 Hos 14:3 Jas 1:27 1 Tim 5:5 Deut 10:18 Jonah 4:11 Mal 3:5 Prov 23:10-11 Ps 146:9 Ps 82:3

Jeremiah 49:12¹²For the Lord says, “If even those who did not deserve to drink from the cup of my wrath must drink from it, do you think you will go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must certainly drink from the cup of my wrath.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 25:28-29 Obad 1:16 1 Pet 4:17-18 Jer 25:15 Jer 30:11 Jer 46:27 Lam 4:21-22 Prov 17:5

Jeremiah 49:13¹³For I solemnly swear,” says the Lord, “that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 22:16 Gen 36:33 Isa 34:6 Amos 1:12 Amos 6:8 Isa 34:9-15 Isa 45:23 Isa 63:1 Jer 44:26 Jer 49:22

Jeremiah 49:14¹⁴I said, “I have heard a message from the Lord. A messenger has been sent among the nations to say, ‘Gather your armies and march out against her! Prepare to do battle with her!’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 30:4 Ezek 7:25-26 Isa 13:2-3 Isa 18:2-3 Isa 37:7 Jer 50:9-16 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:27-28 Jer 51:46 Matt 24:6

Jeremiah 49:15¹⁵The Lord says to Edom, “I will certainly make you small among nations. I will make you despised by all humankind.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:30 1 Sam 2:7-8 Luke 1:51 Mic 7:10 Obad 1:2 Ps 53:5

Jeremiah 49:16¹⁶The terror you inspire in others and the arrogance of your heart have deceived you. You may make your home in the clefts of the rocks; you may occupy the highest places in the hills. But even if you made your home where the eagles nest, I would bring you down from there,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 9:2 Isa 49:25 Job 39:27 Isa 14:13-15 Obad 1:3-4 Prov 16:18 Prov 29:23 Ezek 28:11-19 Isa 2:21 Isa 25:4-5

Jeremiah 49:17¹⁷“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 35:7 Jer 50:13 Jer 49:13 1 Kgs 9:8 Jer 18:16 Jer 51:37 2 Chr 7:20-21 Ezek 25:13 Ezek 35:15 Isa 34:9-15

Jeremiah 49:18¹⁸Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 29:23 Jer 49:33 Amos 4:11 Gen 19:24-25 Jer 50:40 Job 18:15-18 Zeph 2:9 2 Pet 2:6 Isa 13:19-22 Isa 34:10

Jeremiah 49:19¹⁹“A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler who can stand up against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 12:5 Jer 30:21 Exod 15:11 Jer 50:44-46 Job 41:10 Job 9:19 Josh 3:15 1 Chr 12:15 Isa 40:25 Jer 4:7

Jeremiah 49:20²⁰So listen to what I, the Lord, have planned against Edom, what I intend to do to the people who live in Teman. Their little ones will be dragged off. I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 50:45 Mal 1:3-4 Jer 49:7 1 Cor 1:27-29 Acts 4:28 Eph 1:11 Isa 14:24-27 Isa 46:10-11 Jer 37:10 Jer 49:13

Jeremiah 49:21²¹The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall. Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 50:46 Ezek 21:16 Ezek 26:15-18 Ezek 32:10 Isa 14:4-15 Rev 18:10

Jeremiah 49:22²²Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings, a nation will soar up and swoop down on Bozrah. At that time the soldiers of Edom will be as fearful as a woman in labor.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 48:40-41 Hos 8:1 Isa 13:8 Deut 28:49 Jer 30:6 Jer 4:13 Jer 49:24 Jer 6:24 1 Thess 5:3 Dan 7:4

Jeremiah 49:23²³The Lord spoke about Damascus: “The people of Hamath and Arpad will be dismayed because they have heard bad news. Their courage will melt away because of worry. Their hearts will not be able to rest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:34 Isa 10:9 Gen 14:15 Gen 15:2 Isa 57:20 2 Kgs 19:13 Nah 2:10 Num 13:21 1 Kgs 11:24 2 Chr 16:2

Jeremiah 49:24²⁴The people of Damascus will lose heart and turn to flee. Panic will grip them. Pain and anguish will seize them like a woman in labor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 49:25²⁵How deserted will that once-famous city be, that city that was once filled with joy!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 33:9 Jer 51:41 Dan 4:30 Isa 1:26 Isa 14:4-6 Jer 48:2 Jer 48:39 Ps 37:35-36 Rev 18:10 Rev 18:16-19

Jeremiah 49:26²⁶For her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 50:30 Amos 4:10 Jer 11:22 Ezek 27:27 Jer 51:3-4 Jer 9:21 Lam 2:21

Jeremiah 49:27²⁷“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will burn up the palaces of Ben Hadad.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:18-20 Amos 1:3-5 1 Kgs 20:1-22 2 Kgs 13:3 2 Kgs 13:5 Jer 43:12

Jeremiah 49:28²⁸The Lord spoke about Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered: “Army of Babylon, go and attack Kedar. Lay waste those who live in the eastern desert.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 25:13 Isa 11:14 Judg 6:3 Ezek 27:21 Isa 21:16-17 Jer 2:10 Jer 49:14 1 Chr 1:29 Gen 25:6 Isa 13:2-5

Jeremiah 49:29²⁹Their tents and their flocks will be taken away. Their tent curtains, equipment, and camels will be carried off. People will shout to them, ‘Terror is all around you!’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 46:5 Jer 6:25 Hab 3:7 Ps 120:5 1 Chr 5:20-21 2 Cor 4:8 2 Cor 7:5 Gen 37:25 Isa 13:20 Isa 60:7

Jeremiah 49:30³⁰The Lord says, “Flee quickly, you who live in Hazor. Take up refuge in remote places. For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has laid out plans to attack you. He has formed his strategy on how to defeat you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 10:7 Jer 25:9 Jer 27:6 Jer 25:24-25

Jeremiah 49:31³¹The Lord says, “Army of Babylon, go and attack a nation that lives in peace and security. They have no gates or walls to protect them. They live all alone.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 38:11 Deut 33:28 Isa 47:8 Mic 7:14 Num 23:9 Ezek 30:9 Ezek 39:6 Isa 32:11 Isa 32:9 Jer 48:11

Jeremiah 49:32³²Their camels will be taken as plunder. Their vast herds will be taken as spoil. I will scatter to the four winds those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples. I will bring disaster against them from every direction,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:26 Ezek 12:14-15 Ezek 5:10 Jer 25:23 Jer 49:36 Deut 28:64 Ezek 5:12

Jeremiah 49:33³³“Hazor will become a permanent wasteland, a place where only jackals live. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 10:22 Jer 51:37 Jer 9:11 Isa 13:20-22 Mal 1:3 Zeph 2:13-15 Zeph 2:9 Isa 14:23 Isa 34:9-17 Jer 49:17-18

Jeremiah 49:34³⁴This was the Lord’ s message to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam, which came early in the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 8:2 Gen 10:22 Gen 14:1 Jer 25:25 Isa 21:2 Acts 2:9 Ezra 4:9 Isa 11:11 2 Kgs 24:17-18 Ezek 32:24-25

Jeremiah 49:35³⁵The Lord of Heaven’s Armies said: “I will kill all the archers of Elam, who are the chief source of her military might.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 22:6 Jer 51:56 Ps 46:9 Jer 50:14 Jer 50:29

Jeremiah 49:36³⁶I will cause enemies to blow through Elam from every direction like the winds blowing in from the four quarters of heaven. I will scatter the people of Elam to the four winds. There will not be any nation where the refugees of Elam will not go.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 49:32 Amos 9:9 Dan 8:8 Ezek 5:10 Jer 30:17 Rev 7:1 Dan 11:4 Dan 8:22 Deut 28:25 Deut 28:64

Jeremiah 49:37³⁷I will make the people of Elam terrified of their enemies, who are seeking to kill them. I will vent my fierce anger and bring disaster upon them,” says the Lord. “I will send armies chasing after them until I have completely destroyed them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:16 Jer 48:2 Ezek 12:14 Ezek 32:23 Ezek 5:12 Ezek 5:2 Jer 30:24 Jer 34:20-21 Jer 48:39 Jer 49:22

Jeremiah 49:38³⁸I will establish my sovereignty over Elam. I will destroy their king and their leaders,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 7:9-14 Jer 43:10

Jeremiah 49:39³⁹“Yet in future days I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 48:47 Amos 9:14 Dan 10:14 Dan 2:28 Ezek 16:53-55 Ezek 29:14 Ezek 38:16 Ezek 39:25 Hos 3:5 Isa 2:2