29 Their tents and their flocks will be taken away.Their tent curtains, equipment, and camels will be carried off.People will shout to them,‘Terror is all around you!’”
30 The Lord says, “Flee quickly, you who live in Hazor.Take up refuge in remote places.For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has laid out plans to attack you.He has formed his strategy on how to defeat you.”
31 The Lord says, “Army of Babylon, go and attacka nation that lives in peace and security.They have no gates or walls to protect them.They live all alone.
32 Their camels will be taken as plunder.Their vast herds will be taken as spoil.I will scatter to the four windsthose desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples.I will bring disaster against themfrom every direction,” says the Lord.
33 “Hazor will become a permanent wasteland,a place where only jackals live.No one will live there.No human being will settle in it.”
34 Early in the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam.
35 The Lord who rules over all said,“I will kill all the archers of Elam,who are the chief source of her military might.