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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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