(Jeremiah 51:36) Therefore this is what Jehovah has said: “Here I am conducting your legal case, and I shall certainly execute vengeance for you. And I will dry up her sea, and I will make her wells dry. (Jeremiah 51:6) “FLEE out of the midst of Babylon, and provide escape each one for his own soul. Do not be rendered inanimate through her error. For it is the time of vengeance belonging to Jehovah. There is treatment that he is paying back to her. (Jeremiah 31:15) “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘In Ra′mah a voice is being heard, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping over her sons. She has refused to be comforted over her sons, because they are no more.’” (Jeremiah 31:31-33) “Look! There are days coming,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; 32not one like the covenant that I concluded with their forefathers in the day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, ‘which covenant of mine they themselves broke, although I myself had husbandly ownership of them,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.” 33“For this is the covenant that I shall conclude with the house of Israel after those days,” is the utterance of Jehovah. “I will put my law within them, and in their heart I shall write it. And I will become their God, and they themselves will become my people.” (Jeremiah 25:15-17) For this is what Jehovah the God of Israel said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of rage out of my hand, and you must make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink it. 16And they must drink and shake back and forth and act like crazed men because of the sword that I am sending among them.” 17And I proceeded to take the cup out of the hand of Jehovah and to make all the nations drink to whom Jehovah had sent me: (Jeremiah 27:1-7) In the beginning of the kingdom of Je·hoi′a·kim the son of Jo·si′ah, the king of Judah, this word occurred to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying: 2“This is what Jehovah has said to me, ‘Make for yourself bands and yoke bars, and you must put them upon your neck. 3And you must send them to the king of E′dom and to the king of Mo′ab and to the king of the sons of Am′mon and to the king of Tyre and to the king of Si′don by the hand of the messengers who are coming to Jerusalem to Zed·e·ki′ah the king of Judah. 4And you must give them a command for their masters, saying: “‘“This is what Jehovah of armies, the God of Israel, has said; this is what YOU should say to YOUR masters, 5‘I myself have made the earth, mankind and the beasts that are upon the surface of the earth by my great power and by my stretched-out arm; and I have given it to whom it has proved right in my eyes. 6And now I myself have given all these lands into the hand of Neb·u·chad·nez′zar the king of Babylon, my servant; and even the wild beasts of the field I have given him to serve him. 7And all the nations must serve even him and his son and his grandson until the time even of his own land comes, and many nations and great kings must exploit him as a servant.’ (Jeremiah 49:1-10) For the sons of Am′mon this is what Jehovah has said: “Are there no sons that Israel has, or is there no inheritor that he has? Why is it that Mal′cam has taken possession of Gad, and his own people have taken up dwelling in [Israel’s] very cities?” 2“‘Therefore, look! there are days coming,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and I will cause the alarm signal of war to be heard even against Rab′bah of the sons of Am′mon; and she will certainly become a mound of a desolate waste, and her dependent towns themselves will be set aflame in the very fire.’ “‘And Israel will actually take possession of those in possession of him,’ Jehovah has said. 3“‘Howl, O Hesh′bon, for A′i has been despoiled! Cry out, O dependent towns of Rab′bah. Gird sackcloth on yourselves. Wail, and rove about among the stone pens, for Mal′cam himself will go even into exile, his priests and his princes, all together. 4Why do you brag about the low plains, your flowing low plain, O daughter unfaithful, you the one trusting in her treasures, [saying:] “Who will come to me?”’” 5“‘Here I am bringing in upon you a dreadful thing,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord, Jehovah of armies, ‘from all those round about you. And YOU people will certainly be dispersed, each one in his own direction, and there will be no one collecting together those running away.’” 6“‘But afterward I shall gather the captive ones of the sons of Am′mon,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.” 7For E′dom this is what Jehovah of armies has said: “Is there no longer any wisdom in Te′man? Has counsel perished from those having understanding? Has their wisdom gone to putrefying? 8Flee! Let yourselves give way! Go down deep in order to dwell, O inhabitants of De′dan! For the disaster of E′sau I will bring in upon him, the time that I must turn my attention to him. 9If grape gatherers themselves actually came in to you, would they not let some gleanings remain? If thieves [came in] by night, they would certainly cause only as much ruin as they wanted. 10But as for me, I will strip E′sau bare. I will uncover his places of concealment, and one will not be able to hide oneself. His offspring and his brothers and his neighbors will certainly be despoiled, and he will not be. (Jeremiah 49:17, 18) “And E′dom must become an object of astonishment. Everyone passing along by her will stare in astonishment and whistle on account of all her plagues. 18Just as in the overthrow of Sod′om and Go·mor′rah and her neighbor [towns],” Jehovah has said, “no man will dwell there, and no son of mankind will reside in her as an alien.
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