Jeremiah 49:14
Good News Translation
I said, "Edom, I have received a message from the LORD. He has sent a messenger to tell the nations to assemble their armies and to get ready to attack you.

New Revised Standard Version
I have heard tidings from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!”

Contemporary English Version
I have sent a messenger to command the nations to prepare for war against you people of Edom.

New American Bible
I have heard a report from the LORD, a herald has been sent among the nations: “Gather together, move against it, get ready for battle!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let us rise up to battle.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let us rise up to battle.

heard

Jeremiah 51:46 And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler.

Isaiah 37:7 Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own country.

Ezekiel 7:25,26 When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none. . . .

Obadiah 1:1 And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Matthew 24:6 And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet.

an ambassador

Isaiah 18:2,3 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled. . . .

Isaiah 30:4 For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.

Gather

Jeremiah 50:9-16 For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain. . . .

Jeremiah 51:11,27,28 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. . . .

Isaiah 13:2,3 Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates. . . .

Context
The Judgment on Edom
13For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes. 14I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let us rise up to battle.15For behold I have made thee a little one among the nations, despicable among men.…
Cross References
Isaiah 18:2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.

Isaiah 30:4
For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.

Jeremiah 49:15
For behold I have made thee a little one among the nations, despicable among men.

Jeremiah 50:14
Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned against the Lord.

Obadiah 1:1
And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Jeremiah 49:13
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