King James 2000

Jeremiah 49:22-31 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

22. Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

23. Concerning Damascus.

24. Damascus has grown feeble, and turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

25. How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

26. Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,

27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

28. Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike, thus says the LORD;

29. Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

30. Flee, get far off, dwell in the depths, O you inhabitants of Hazor,

31. Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwells without care,