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Nancy: Welcome to immerse: the
daily bible reading experience.
day 200 and 67
this is what the Lord the
God of Israel said to me.
Take from my hand, this cup filled to
the brimm with my anger and make all the
nations to whom I send you drink from it.
When they drink from it, they
will stagger, crazed by the
warfare I will send against them.
So I took the cup of anger from the Lord
and made all the nations drink from it.
Every nation to which the Lord sent me.
I went to Jerusalem and the other
towns of Judah and their kings
and officials drank from the cup.
From that day until this, they have
been a desolate ruin, an object
of horror, contempt, and cursing.
I gave the cup to Pharaoh, king of
Egypt, his attendance, his officials,
and all his people along with all
the foreigners living in that land.
I also gave it to all the kings of
the land of Oz and the kings of the
Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza,
Akron, and what remains of Ashdod?
Then I gave the cup to the nations
of Edem, Moab, and Amon, and the
kings of Tyre and Seiden and the
kings of the regions across the sea.
I gave it to Dein, Tema, and Buzz, and
to the people who live in distant places.
I gave it to the kings of Arabia.
The kings of the nomadic tribes
of the desert, and to the kings of
Zimri, ELAM, and media, and I gave
it to the kings of the northern
countries far and near one after the
other, all the kingdoms of the world.
And finally, the King of Babylon himself
drank from the cup of the Lord's anger.
Then the Lord said to meow, tell them
this is what the Lord of heaven's
armies the God of Israel says.
Drink from this cup of my anger.
Get drunk and vomit.
Fall to rise.
No more for I am sending
terrible wars against you.
And if they refuse to
accept the cup, tell them.
The Lord of heaven's armies says you
have no choice but to drink from it.
I have begun to punish Jerusalem,
the city that bears my name.
Now, should I let you go unpunished?
No, you will not escape disaster.
I.
I will call for war against
all the nations of the earth.
I the Lord of heaven's armies have spoken
now, prophesy all these things and say to
them, the Lord will roar against his own
land from his holy dwelling in heaven.
He will shout like those who tread grapes.
He will shout against everyone on earth.
His cry of judgment will
reach the ends of the earth.
For the Lord will bring his
case against all the nations.
He will judge all the people of the earth
slaughtering the wicked with the sword.
I, the Lord have spoken.
This is what the Lord
of heaven's armies says.
Look, disaster will fall
upon nation after nation.
A great whirlwind of fury is
rising from the most distant
corners of the earth in that day.
Those the Lord has slaughtered will fill
the earth from one end to the other.
No one will mourn for them or
gather up their bodies to bury them.
They will be scattered on the
ground like manure, weep and moan.
You.
Evil shepherds roll in the
dust you leaders of the flock.
The time of your slaughter has arrived.
You will fall and shatter
like a fragile vase.
You'll find no place to hide.
There will be no way to escape.
Listen to the frantic
cries of the shepherds.
The leaders of the flock are
wailing in despair for the
Lord is ruining their pastures.
Peaceful meadows will be turned into a
wasteland by the Lord's fierce anger.
He has left his den like a strong lion
seeking its prey, and their land will
be made desolate by the sword of the
enemy and the Lord's fierce anger.
The following messages were given
to Jeremiah, the prophet from the
Lord concerning foreign nations.
This message concerning Egypt was given in
the fourth year of the reign of Jo Jolla
Kim, son of Josiah, the king of Judah,
on the occasion of the Battle of Kamish,
when Pharaoh Niko king of Egypt and his
army were defeated beside the Euphrates
River by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
Prepare your shields
and advance into battle.
Harness the horses and
mount the stallions.
Take your positions, put on
your helmets, sharpen your
spears, and prepare your armor.
But what do I see?
The Egyptian army flees in terror,
the bravest of its fighting.
Men run without a backward glance.
They're terrorized at
every turn, says the Lord.
The swiftest runners cannot flee.
The mightiest warriors cannot escape
by the Euphrates River to the north.
They stumble and fall.
Who is this rising like the Nile at
flood time overflowing all the land.
It is the Egyptian army overflowing
all the land, boasting that it
will cover the earth like a flood
destroying cities and their people
charge you horses and chariots
attack you mighty warriors of Egypt.
Come all you allies from
Ethiopia, Libya, and Lydia who are
skilled with the shield and bow.
For this is the day of the Lord.
The Lord of heaven's armies a
day of vengeance on his enemies.
The sword will devour
until it is satisfied.
Yes, until it is drunk with your blood.
The Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies
will receive a sacrifice today in the
north country beside the Euphrates River.
Go up to Gilead to get medicine.
Oh, Virgin Daughter of Egypt.
But your many treatments
will bring you no healing.
The nations have heard of your shame.
The earth is filled.
With your cries of despair, your
mightiest warriors will run into
each other and fall down together.
Then the Lord gave the prophet
Jeremiah this message about King
Nebuchadnezzar's plans to attack Egypt.
Shout it out in Egypt.
Publish it in the cities of
Migdal, Memphis and Tese.
Mobilize for battle for the sword
will devour everyone around you.
Why have your warriors fallen?
They cannot stand for the
Lord has knocked them down.
They stumble and fall over each other and
say, among themselves, come, let's go back
to our people, to the land of our birth.
Let's get away from the sword of
the enemy There they will say.
Pharaoh, the King of Egypt is a
loudmouth who missed his opportunity,
as surely as I Live says the king, whose
name is the Lord of Heaven's armies.
One is coming against Egypt,
who is as tall as Mount Tabor
or as Mount Carmel by the sea.
Pack up, get ready to leave for
exile, use citizens of Egypt.
The city of Memphis will be destroyed
without a single inhabitant.
Egypt is as sleek as a beautiful heifer.
A horsely from the north is on its way.
Egypt's mercenaries have
become like fattened calves.
They too will turn and run for
it is a day of great disaster for
Egypt, a time of great punishment.
Egypt f flees, silent as
a serpent, gliding away.
The invading army marches in.
They come against her
with axes like woodsman.
They will cut down her people
like trees, says the Lord.
For they are more numerous than locusts.
Egypt will be humiliated.
She will be handed over
to people from the north.
The Lord of heaven's armies,
the God of Israel says, I will
punish Amon, the God of thieves
and all the other gods of Egypt.
I will punish its rulers and Pharaoh
too and all who trust in him.
I will hand them over to those
who want them killed to King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his army.
Afterward, the land will
recover from the ravages of war.
I, the Lord have spoken,
but do not be afraid.
Jacob, my servant, do not be dismayed
Israel for I will bring you home
again from distant lands and your
children will return from their exile.
Israel will return to a life of peace
and quiet and no one will terrorize them.
Do not be afraid.
Jacob, my servant.
For I am with you, says the Lord.
I will completely destroy the nations
to which I have exiled you, but I
will not completely destroy you.
I will discipline you, but with
justice, I cannot let you go unpunished.
This is the Lord's message to the
prophet Jeremiah concerning the
Philistines of Gaza before it was
captured by the Egyptian army.
This is what the Lord says.
A flood is coming from the
north to overflow the land.
It will destroy the land
and everything in it.
Cities and people alike, people
will scream in terror and
everyone in the land will wa here.
The clatter of stallions, hooves, and
the rumble of wheels as the chariots
rush by terrified fathers run madly
without a backward glance at their
helpless children, the time has come
for the Philistines to be destroyed.
Along with their allies
from tire and seden.
Yes, the Lord is destroying
the remnant of the Philistines.
Those colonists from the island
of Crete, Gaza will be humiliated.
Its head shaved bald.
Ashkelon will lie Silent you remnant
from the Mediterranean coast.
How long will you cut
yourselves in mourning now.
Oh, sword of the Lord.
When will you be at rest again?
Go back into your sheath.
Rest and be still.
But how can it be still when the Lord
has sent it on a mission for the city
of Ashkelon and the people living
along the sea must be destroyed?
This message was given concerning Moab.
This is what the Lord of Heaven's
armies, the God of Israel says,
what sorrow awaits the city of Nebo.
It will soon lie in ruins.
The city of Curia Theum will
be humiliated and captured.
The fortress will be
humiliated and broken down.
No one will ever brag about Moab again.
For in Heshbon there is a plot.
To destroy her come, they say we
will cut her off from being a nation.
The town of Madman two will be silenced.
The sword will follow you there.
Listen to the cries from Horan.
Cries of devastation
and great destruction.
All Moab is destroyed.
Her little ones will cry out.
Her refugees weep bitterly
climbing the slope to lueth.
They cry out in terror.
Descending the slope to rna.
Flee for your lives.
Hide in the wilderness.
Because you have trusted in your wealth
and skill, you will be taken captive.
Your God mosh with his
priests and officials will be
hauled off to distant lands.
All the towns will be destroyed
and no one will escape either on
the plateaus or in the valleys.
For the Lord has spoken, oh, that
Moab had wings so she could fly
away for her towns will be left
empty with no one living in them.
Cursed are those who refuse to
do the Lord's work, who hold back
their swords from shedding blood.
From his earliest history, Moab has
lived in peace, never going into exile.
He is like wine that has
been allowed to settle.
He has not been poured from flask to
flask, and he is now fragrant and smooth.
But the time is coming
soon, says the Lord.
When I will send men to pour him
from his jar, they will pour him out.
Then shatter the jar.
At last, Moab will be ashamed of his
idol mosh as the people of Israel
were ashamed of their gold calf.
At Bethel.
You use to boast.
We are heroes, mighty men of war.
But now Moab and his
towns will be destroyed.
His most promising youth
are doomed to slaughter.
Says the king, whose name is
the Lord of Heaven's armies.
Destruction is coming fast for
Moab Calamity, threatens ominously.
You friends of Moab, weep for him and cry.
See how the strong scepter is broken,
how the beautiful staff is shattered.
Come down from your glory and sit
in the dust you people of dibon.
For those who destroy, Moab
will shatter dibon too.
They will tear down all your towers.
You people of Aurora stand
beside the road and watch.
Shout to those who flee from Moab.
What has happened there?
And the reply comes
back, Moab lies in ruins.
Disgraced, weep and wail tell it
by the banks of the Arn and river.
Moab has been destroyed.
Judgment has been poured out
on the towns of the plateau
on Hoan and Jay has and Mefe.
On Dban and Nibo and Beth Dli Tham on
Tha and Beth Gamal and Beth Neon on Kaiya
and Basra, all the towns of Moab, far
and near the strength of Moab has ended.
His arm has been broken.
Says the Lord let him stagger
and fall like a drunkard for he
has rebelled against the Lord.
Moab will wallow in his
own vomit, ridiculed.
By all, did you not ridicule
the people of Israel?
Were they caught in the company of thieves
that you should despise them as you?
Do you people of Moab flee from your
towns and live in the caves, hide
like doves that nest in the clefts
of the rocks we have all heard of.
The pride of Moab for
his pride is very great.
We know of his lofty pride, his
arrogance, and his haughty heart.
I know about his insolence, says
the Lord, but his boasts are
empty, as empty as his deeds.
So now I wa for Moab.
Yes, I will mourn for Moab.
My heart is broken.
For the men of Keir Harris, you
people of Sigma rich in vineyards.
I will weep for you even
more than I did for Jayer.
Your spreading vines once reached
as far as the dead sea, but the
destroyer has stripped you bare.
He has harvested your
grapes and summer fruits.
Joy and gladness are gone from fruitful.
Moab.
The presses yield no wine, no one
treads the grapes with shouts of joy.
There is shouting yes, but not of joy.
Instead, their awful cries of terror
can be heard from Heshbon clear across
to Eala, and Jay has from Zoar all
the way to m and Ola, Shaha, even
the waters of Nim rim are dried up.
Now, I will put an end to Moab,
says the Lord, for the people, offer
sacrifices at the pagan shrines and
burn incense to their false gods.
My heart moans like a flute
for Moab and Keir eth for all
their wealth has disappeared.
The people shave their heads and beards
in mourning they slash their hands
and put on clothes made of burlap.
There is crying and sorrow
in every Moabite home and on
every street for I have smashed
Moab, like an old unwanted jar.
How it is shattered.
Hear the wailing.
See the shame of Moab.
It has become an object of ridicule, an
example of ruin to all its neighbors.
This is what the Lord says.
Look, the enemy swoops down like an
eagle spreading his wings over Moab.
Its cities will fall and its
strongholds will be seized.
Even the mightiest warriors will be
in anguish like a woman in labor.
Moab will no longer be a nation.
For it has boasted against the Lord.
Terror and traps and
snares will be your lot.
Oh, Moab says the Lord.
Those who flee in terror will fall
into a trap and those who escape
the trap will step into a snare.
I will see to it that you do not
get away for the time of your
judgment has come, says the Lord.
The people flee as far as
heshbon, but are unable to go on.
For a fire comes from Hespan King
Han's ancient home to devour the entire
land with all its rebellious people.
What sorrow awaits you?
Oh, people of Moab, the people
of the God Osh are destroyed.
Your sons and your daughters have been
taken away as captives, but I will restore
the fortunes of Moab in days to come.
I, the Lord have spoken.
This is the end of Jeremiah's
prophecy concerning Moab.
This message was given
concerning the Ammonites.
This is what the Lord says.
Are there no descendants of Israel
to inherit the land of Gadd?
Why are you who worship molech
living in its towns in the
days to come, says the Lord.
I will sound the battle cry
against your city of Rabbi.
It will become a desolate heap of ruins
and the neighboring towns will be burned.
Then Israel will take back
the land you took from her.
Says the Lord.
Cry out.
Do heshbon for the town
of AI is destroyed.
Weep.
Oh people of rabba.
Put on your clothes of mourning, weep, and
whale hiding in the hedges for your God.
Molech with his priests and officials
will be hauled off to distant lands.
You are proud of your fertile
valleys, but they will soon be ruined.
You trusted in your wealth, your
rebellious daughter, and thought
no one could ever harm you.
But look, I will bring terror
upon you, says the Lord.
The Lord of heaven's armies.
Your neighbors will chase you
from your land and no one will
help your exiles as they flee.
But I will restore the fortunes
of the Ammonites in days to come.
I the Lord have spoken.
This message was given concerning Eden.
This is what the Lord of heaven's
armies says Is there no wisdom in teman?
Is no one left to give wise counsel?
Turn and flee.
Hide in deep caves you people of Eden.
For when I bring disaster on
Edem, I will punish you too.
Those who harvest grapes always
leave a few for the poor.
If thieves came at night, they
would not take everything.
But I will strip bear the land
of Edam and there will be no
place left to hide its children.
Its brothers, and its neighbors
will all be destroyed and
Edam itself will be no more.
But I will protect the
orphans who remain among you.
Your widows too can depend on me
for help, and this is what the Lord
says if the innocent must suffer.
How much more must you?
You will not go unpunished.
You must drink this cup of judgment for I
have sworn by my own name, says the Lord.
That Basra will become an object
of horror and a heap of ruins.
It will be mocked and cursed.
All its towns and villages
will be desolate forever.
I have heard a message from the
Lord that an ambassador was sent to
the nations to say form a coalition
against edem and prepare for battle.
The Lord says to Edem, I will cut
you down to size among the nations.
You will be despised by all you have
been deceived by the fear you inspire
in others and by your own pride.
You live in a rock fortress and
control the mountain heights.
But even if you make your nest among
the peaks with the eagles, I will
bring you crashing down, says the Lord.
Edam will be an object of horror.
All who pass by will be appalled and will
gasp at the destruction they see there.
It will be like the destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah and their
neighboring towns, says the Lord.
No one will live there.
No one will inhabit it.
I will come like a lion from the
thickets of the Jordan leaping
on the sheep in the pasture.
I will chase Edam from its land and I
will appoint the leader of my choice for
who is like me and who can challenge me.
What ruler can oppose my will?
Listen to the Lord's plans against
Edam and the people of Teman.
Even the little children will
be dragged off like sheep and
their homes will be destroyed.
The earth will shake with the noise of
Ed's fall and its cry of despair will
be heard all the way to the Red Sea.
Look, the enemy swoops down like an
eagle spreading its wings over Basra.
Even the mightiest warriors will be
an anguish like a woman in labor.
This message was given
concerning Damascus.
This is what the Lord says.
The towns of Hamoth and
arpad are struck with fear.
For they have heard the
news of their destruction.
Their hearts are troubled like a wild sea.
In a raging storm, Damascus has become
feeble and all her people turn to flee.
Fear, anguish and pain have gripped her
as they grip a woman in labor that famous
city, a city of joy will be forsaken.
Her young men will fall
in the streets and die.
Her soldiers will all be killed,
says the Lord of heaven's Armies.
And I will set fire to the
walls of Damascus that will burn
up the palaces of Ben Hayad.
This message was given concerning
Keter and the kingdoms of
Hazel, which were attacked by
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
This is what the Lord says,
advance against Keter, destroy
the warriors from the east.
Their flocks and tents will be
captured and their household goods
and camels will be taken away.
Everywhere shouts of panic will be heard.
We are terrorized at every turn.
Run for your lives says the Lord.
Hide yourselves in deep caves.
You people of Hazel.
For King Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylon has plotted against you
and is preparing to destroy you.
Go up and attack that complacent
nation, says the Lord.
It's people live alone in the
desert without walls or gates.
Their camels and other
livestock will all be yours.
I will scatter to the winds.
These people who live in remote
places, I will bring calamity upon them
from every direction says the Lord.
Hazer will be inhabited by jackals
and it will be desolate forever.
No one will live there.
No one will inhabit it.
This message concerning Elam
came to the prophet Jeremiah from
the Lord at the beginning of the
reign of Kings Zakiah of Judah.
This is what the Lord
of Heaven's armies says.
I will destroy the archers of
Elam, the best of their forces.
I will bring enemies from all
directions, and I will scatter the
people of Elam to the four winds.
They will be exiled to
countries around the world.
I myself will go with ELAMs
enemies to shatter it.
In my fierce anger, I will
bring great disaster upon the
people of Elam says the Lord.
Their enemies will chase them with
the sword until I have destroyed
them completely, I will set my throne
in Elam says the Lord, and I will
destroy its king and officials.
But I will restore the fortunes
of Elam in days to come.
I the Lord have spoken.
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