Jeremiah 49 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Prophecy against Ammon

Jer 49:1About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?

Jer 49:2

Jer 49:2Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage of those who took his heritage, says the Lord.

Jer 49:3

Jer 49:3Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.

Jer 49:4

Jer 49:4Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?

Jer 49:5

Jer 49:5See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers.

Jer 49:6

Jer 49:6But after these things, I will let the fate of the children of Ammon be changed, says the Lord.

Prophecy against Edom

Jer 49:7

Jer 49:7About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?

Jer 49:8

Jer 49:8Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.

Jer 49:9

Jer 49:9If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?

Jer 49:10

Jer 49:10I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.

Jer 49:11

Jer 49:11Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.

Jer 49:12

Jer 49:12For the Lord has said, Those for whom the cup was not made ready will certainly be forced to take of it; and are you to go without punishment? you will not be without punishment, but will certainly be forced to take from the cup.

Jer 49:13

Jer 49:13For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.

Jer 49:14

Jer 49:14Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight.

Jer 49:15

Jer 49:15For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

Jer 49:16

Jer 49:16... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

Jer 49:17

Jer 49:17And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

Jer 49:18

Jer 49:18As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.

Jer 49:19

Jer 49:19See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?

Jer 49:20

Jer 49:20For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.

Jer 49:21

Jer 49:21The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.

Jer 49:22

Jer 49:22See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom's men of war on that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

Prophecy against Damascus

Jer 49:23

Jer 49:23About Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for the word of evil has come to their ears, their heart in its fear is turned to water, it will not be quiet.

Jer 49:24

Jer 49:24Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.

Jer 49:25

Jer 49:25How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!

Jer 49:26

Jer 49:26So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.

Jer 49:27

Jer 49:27And I will have a fire lighted on the wall of Damascus, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.

Prophecy against Kedar and Hazor

Jer 49:28

Jer 49:28About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.

Jer 49:29

Jer 49:29Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.

Jer 49:30

Jer 49:30Go in flight, go wandering far off, take cover in deep places, O people of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a design against you, he has a purpose against you in mind.

Jer 49:31

Jer 49:31Up! go against a nation which is living in comfort and without fear of danger, says the Lord, without doors or locks, living by themselves.

Jer 49:32

Jer 49:32And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.

Jer 49:33

Jer 49:33And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

Prophecy against Elam

Jer 49:34

Jer 49:34The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, saying,

Jer 49:35

Jer 49:35This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will have the bow of Elam, their chief strength, broken.

Jer 49:36

Jer 49:36And I will send on Elam four winds from the four quarters of heaven, driving them out to all those winds; there will be no nation into which the wanderers from Elam do not come.

Jer 49:37

Jer 49:37And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:

Jer 49:38

Jer 49:38I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord.

Jer 49:39

Jer 49:39But it will come about that, in the last days, I will let the fate of Elam be changed, says the Lord.