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    "book": "jeremiah",
    "chapter": 49
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    "n": 49,
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    "bookCode": "JER",
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    "title": "",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JER-49:1",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.1",
        "text": "Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities thereof?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JER-49:2",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.2",
        "text": "Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did possess him, saith Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JER-49:3",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.3",
        "text": "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JER-49:4",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.4",
        "text": "Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come unto me?"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JER-49:5",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.5",
        "text": "Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, from all that are round about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JER-49:6",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.6",
        "text": "But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JER-49:7",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.7",
        "text": "Of Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JER-49:8",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.8",
        "text": "Flee ye, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JER-49:9",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.9",
        "text": "If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough?"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JER-49:10",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.10",
        "text": "But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is not."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JER-49:11",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.11",
        "text": "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JER-49:12",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.12",
        "text": "For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JER-49:13",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.13",
        "text": "For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JER-49:14",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.14",
        "text": "I have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JER-49:15",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.15",
        "text": "For, behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JER-49:16",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.16",
        "text": "As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JER-49:17",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.17",
        "text": "And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JER-49:18",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.18",
        "text": "As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JER-49:19",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.19",
        "text": "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that will stand before me?"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JER-49:20",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.20",
        "text": "Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JER-49:21",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.21",
        "text": "The earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JER-49:22",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.22",
        "text": "Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JER-49:23",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.23",
        "text": "Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JER-49:24",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.24",
        "text": "Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JER-49:25",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.25",
        "text": "How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JER-49:26",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.26",
        "text": "Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JER-49:27",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.27",
        "text": "And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JER-49:28",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.28",
        "text": "Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith Jehovah: Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JER-49:29",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.29",
        "text": "Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror on every side!"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JER-49:30",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.30",
        "text": "Flee ye, wander far off, dwell in the depths, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JER-49:31",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.31",
        "text": "Arise, get you up unto a nation that is at ease, that dwelleth without care, saith Jehovah; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JER-49:32",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.32",
        "text": "And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all winds them that have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JER-49:33",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.33",
        "text": "And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation for ever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JER-49:34",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.34",
        "text": "The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,"
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JER-49:35",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.35",
        "text": "Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "JER-49:36",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.36",
        "text": "And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "JER-49:37",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.37",
        "text": "And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life; and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith Jehovah; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them;"
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "JER-49:38",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.38",
        "text": "and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence king and princes, saith Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "JER-49:39",
        "verseRef": "Jer.49.39",
        "text": "But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah."
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