Jeremiah 49 - Legacy Standard Bible

Jeremiah 49

Word Against Ammon

Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh:

“Does Israel have no sons?

Or has he no one who can take possession?

Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad

And his people settled in its cities?

Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh,

“That I will cause a trumpet blast of war to be heard

Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon;

And it will become a desolate heap,

And her towns will be set on fire.

Then Israel will take possession of his possessors,”

Says Yahweh.

“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed!

Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah,

Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament,

And rush back and forth inside the walls;

For Malcam will go into exile

Together with his priests and his princes.

How boastful you are about the valleys!

Your valley is flowing away,

O faithless daughter

Who trusts in her treasures, saying,

‘Who will come against me?’

Behold, I am going to bring dread upon you,”

Declares Lord Yahweh of hosts,

“From all around you;

And each of you will be banished headlong,

With no one to gather the one who flees.

But afterward I will return

The fortunes of the sons of Ammon,”

Declares Yahweh.

Word Against Edom

Concerning Edom.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman?

Has counsel been lost to the understanding?

Has their wisdom decayed?

Flee away, turn back, inhabit the depths,

O inhabitants of Dedan,

For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him

At the time I punish him.

If grape gatherers came to you,

Would they not have gleanings remain?

If thieves came by night,

They would ruin only until they had enough.

But I have stripped Esau bare;

I have uncovered his hiding places,

So that he will not be able to conceal himself;

His seed has been destroyed along with his relatives

And his neighbors, and he is no more.

Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive;

And let your widows trust in Me.”

12 For thus says Yahweh, “Behold, those who are not under judgment to drink the cup will certainly drink it, but are you the one who will go completely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but you will certainly drink it. 13 For I have sworn by Myself,” declares Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin, and an imprecation; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins.” 14

I have heard a message from Yahweh,

And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying,

“Gather yourselves together and come against her,

And rise up for battle!”

“For behold, I have made you small among the nations,

Despised among men.

As for the terror of you,

The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,

O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,

Who seize the height of the hill.

Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s,

I will bring you down from there,” declares Yahweh.

17 “Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds. 18 Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says Yahweh, “no one will live there, nor will a son of man sojourn in it. 19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against an enduring pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?” 20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh which He has counseled against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them. 21 The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea. 22 Behold, He will mount up and swoop like an eagle and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Word Against Damascus

Concerning Damascus.

“Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,

For they have heard a bad report;

They are melting away.

There is anxiety by the sea,

It cannot be quieted.

Damascus has become limp in their hands;

She has turned away to flee,

And panic has taken hold of her;

Distress and pangs have seized her

Like a woman in childbirth.

How the city of praise has not been forsaken,

The town of My joy!

Therefore, her young men will fall in her open squares,

And all the men of war will be silenced in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts.

“I will set fire to the wall of Damascus,

And it will devour the fortified towers of Ben‑hadad.”

Word Against Kedar and Hazor

28 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down. Thus says Yahweh,

“Arise, go up to Kedar

And destroy the men of the east.

They will take away their tents and their flocks;

They will carry off for themselves

Their tent curtains, all their goods, and their camels,

And they will call out to one another, ‘Terror on every side!’

Run away, flee earnestly! Inhabit the depths,

O inhabitants of Hazor,” declares Yahweh;

“For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you

And purposed a purpose against you.

Arise, go up against a nation which is at ease,

Which inhabits its land securely,” declares Yahweh.

“It has no gates or bars;

They dwell alone.

Their camels will become plunder,

And their many cattle for spoil,

And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair;

And I will bring their disaster from every side,” declares Yahweh.

“Hazor will become a haunt of jackals,

A desolation forever;

No one will inhabit there,

Nor will a son of man sojourn in it.”

Word Against Elam

34 That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:
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“Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

‘Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam,

The finest of their might.

I will bring upon Elam the four winds

From the four ends of heaven,

And I will scatter them to all these winds;

And there will be no nation

To which the banished ones of Elam will not go.

So I will shatter Elam before their enemies

And before those who seek their lives;

And I will bring calamity upon them,

Even My burning anger,’ declares Yahweh,

‘And I will send out the sword after them

Until I have consumed them.

Then I will set My throne in Elam

And cause king and princes from there to perish,’

Declares Yahweh.

‘But it will be in the last days

That I will return the fortunes of Elam,’”

Declares Yahweh.

2 Corinthians 1 - 2

God of All Comfort

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is working in your perseverance in the same sufferings which we also suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort. 8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even to live. 9 Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not have confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; 10 who rescued us from so great a peril of death, and will rescue us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet rescue us, 11 you also joining in helping us through your prayers on our behalf, so that thanks may be given on our behalf by many persons for the gracious gift bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

Paul’s Change of Plans

12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you. 13 For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end, 14 just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason for boasting as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. 15 And in this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might receive grace twice; 16 that is, to pass your way into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be helped on my journey to Judea. 17 Therefore, was I vacillating when I intended to do this? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time? 18 But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but has become yes in Him. 20 For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes. Therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. 21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, 22 who also sealed us and gave the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. 23 But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth. 24 Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. 2 For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? 3 And this is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.

Forgive and Love the Sinner

5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—in order not to say too much—to all of you. 6 Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority, 7 so that on the contrary you should rather graciously forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up by excessive sorrow. 8 Therefore I encourage you to reaffirm your love for him. 9 For to this end also I wrote, so that I might know your proven character, whether you are obedient in all things. 10 But one whom you graciously forgive anything, I graciously forgive also. For indeed what I have graciously forgiven, if I have graciously forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11 so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. 12 Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord, 13 I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother. But saying farewell to them, I went on to Macedonia. 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and manifests through us the aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; 16 to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Psalm 122

Go to the House of Yahweh

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

I was glad when they said to me,

“Let us go to the house of Yahweh.”

Our feet are standing

Within your gates, O Jerusalem,

Jerusalem, which is built

As a city joined altogether;

To which the tribes, the tribes of Yah, go up—

A testimony for Israel—

To give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

For there, thrones sit for judgment,

The thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

“May they prosper who love you.

May peace be within your walls,

And tranquility within your palaces.”

For the sake of my brothers and my friends,

I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,

I will seek your good.