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NOVEMBER 1
And who is that shepherd O inhabitants of Hazor!” says the LORD.
Who will withstand Me?” “For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
has taken counsel against you,
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Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD And has conceived a plan against you.
that He has taken against Edom,
And His purposes that He has 31 “Arise, go up to the wealthy nation that
proposed against the inhabitants dwells securely,” says the LORD,
of Teman: “Which has neither gates nor bars,
Surely the least of the flock shall draw Dwelling alone.
them out; 32 Their camels shall be for booty,
Surely He shall make their dwelling And the multitude of their cattle for
places desolate with them. plunder.
21 The earth shakes at the noise I will scatter to all winds those in the
of their fall; farthest corners,
At the cry its noise is heard And I will bring their calamity from all
at the Red Sea. its sides,” says the LORD.
22 Behold, He shall come up and fly 33 “Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals,
like the eagle, a desolation forever;
And spread His wings over Bozrah; No one shall reside there,
The heart of the mighty men of Edom Nor son of man dwell in it.”
in that day shall be 34 The word of the LORD that came to Jere-
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
miah the prophet against Elam, in the begin-
23 Against Damascus. ning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah,
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saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“Hamath and Arpad are shamed,
For they have heard bad news. ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
They are fainthearted; The foremost of their might.
There is trouble on the sea; 36 Against Elam I will bring the four
It cannot be quiet. winds
24 Damascus has grown feeble; From the four quarters of heaven,
She turns to flee, And scatter them toward all those winds;
And fear has seized her. There shall be no nations where the
Anguish and sorrows have taken her outcasts of Elam will not go.
like a woman in labor. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed
25 Why is the city of praise not deserted, before their enemies
the city of My joy? And before those who seek their life.
Therefore her young men shall fall in I will bring disaster upon them,
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her streets, My fierce anger,’ says the LORD;
And all the men of war shall be cut off ‘And I will send the sword after them
in that day,” says the LORD of hosts. Until I have consumed them.
27 “I will kindle a fire in the wall 38 I will set My throne in Elam,
of Damascus, And will destroy from there the king
And it shall consume the palaces of and the princes,’ says the LORD.
Ben-Hadad.”
39 ‘But it shall come to pass in the latter
28 Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of
days:
Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon I will bring back the captives of Elam,’
shall strike. says the LORD.”
Thus says the LORD:
The word that the LORD spoke against
“Arise, go up to Kedar,
And devastate the men of the East! 50 Babylon and against the land of the
Their tents and their flocks they shall
29 Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
take away. 2 “Declare among the nations,
They shall take for themselves their Proclaim, and set up a standard;
curtains, Proclaim—do not conceal it—
All their vessels and their camels; Say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed.
And they shall cry out to them, Merodach is broken in pieces;
‘Fear is on every side!’
Her idols are humiliated,
“Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths,
30 Her images are broken in pieces.’
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