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Jeremiah 49:31

New American Bible - revised edition

Get up! set out against a tranquil nation, living in security—oracle of the Lord— Without gates or bars, dwelling alone.

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Our souls are more than sated with mockery from the insolent, with contempt from the arrogant.

Such, then, are the wicked, always carefree, increasing their wealth.

Tremble, you who are so complacent! Shudder, you who are so confident! Strip yourselves bare, with only a loincloth for cover.

You women so complacent, rise up and hear my voice, daughters so confident, give heed to my words.

Let the wilderness and its cities cry out, the villages where Kedar dwells; Let the inhabitants of Sela exult, and shout from the top of the mountains.

Now hear this, voluptuous one, enthroned securely, Saying in your heart, “I, and no one else! I shall never be a widow, bereft of my children”—

Moab has been resting from its youth, suspended above its dregs, Never poured from flask to flask, never driven into exile. Thus it retained its flavor, its bouquet is not lost.

On that day, messengers from me will go forth in ships to terrorize confident Ethiopia. Anguish will be among them on Egypt’s day—it is certainly coming!

You will say, “I will invade a land of open villages and attack a peaceful people who live in security—all of them living without city walls, bars, or gates”—

I will send fire against Magog and against those who live securely on the seacoast, and they will know that I am the Lord.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, That lives apart in a woodland, in the midst of an orchard. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old;

Thus says the Lord: though fully intact and so numerous, they shall be mown down and disappear. Though I have humbled you, I will humble you no more.

Is this the exultant city that dwelt secure, That told itself, “I and there is no one else”? How it has become a waste, a lair for wild animals! Those who pass by it hiss, and shake their fists!

For from the top of the crags I see him, from the heights I behold him. Here is a people that lives apart and does not reckon itself among the nations.

Israel abides securely, Jacob dwells apart, In a land of grain and wine, where the heavens drip with dew.




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