Jeremiah - Chapters 46-51

This section of Scripture covers the judgments upon the nations surrounding Israel and Judah. The first to be addressed was Egypt, and the judgment was that Babylon was coming to Egypt to bring disaster, but there was a glimmer of hope in verse 26b, "'Later, however, Egypt will be inhabited as in times past,' declared the Lord.'" With the Philistines there was not a glimmer of hope. Moab was next, and she too will be destroyed, but verse 48:47 says, "Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in days to come,' declares the Lord. Here ends the judgment on Moab." In chapter 49, Ammon will be attacked, and verse six says, "'Yet, afterward, I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites,' declares the Lord." With Edom, descendants of Esau, the Lord says their orphans and widows the Lord would watch over. There is no glimmer of  hope with the city of Damascus or with the Nomadic tribes of Kedar and Hazar. The last city mentioned in this chapter was Elam which was by the Persian  Gulf, and verse 39 is the glimmer of hope, "'Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam in days to come,' declares the Lord." The last two chapters, 50-51, discuss the destruction of Babylon which also means the release of the Jews to go home. There is a sliver of hope in verse 8 with a "perhaps she can be healed." In the end of this section, Jeremiah wrote these prophesies about Babylon, and Seraiah took it to Babylon, read it to the people, tied up the scroll with a stone and threw it into the Euphrates River, and said that like this scroll it will rise no more because of the disaster that the Lord will bring upon them.