Jeremiah 49:30-39

Listen to Jeremiah 49:30-39

30 “Flee quickly away! Stay in deep caves, you who live in Hazor,” declares the LORD. “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has plotted against you; he has devised a plan against you.

31 “Arise and attack a nation at ease, which lives in confidence,” declares the LORD, “a nation that has neither gates nor bars; its people live far from danger.

32 Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoils of war. I will scatter to the winds those who are in distant places^[a]and will bring disaster on them from every side,” declares the LORD.

33 “Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, a desolate place forever. No one will live there; no people will dwell in it.”

A Message About Elam

34 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah:

35 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “See, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might.

36 I will bring against Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation where Elam’s exiles do not go.

37 I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who want to kill them; I will bring disaster on them, even my fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.

38 I will set my throne in Elam and destroy her king and officials,” declares the LORD.

39 “Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam in days to come,” declares the LORD.

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Jeremiah 49:30-39 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 49

This chapter contains prophecies concerning the judgments of God on several nations and kingdoms, chiefly bordering on the land of Israel; on the Ammonites, Jer 49:1-6; on the Edomites, Jer 49:7-22; on the kingdom of Damascus, or the Syrians, Jer 49:23-27; on the Kedarenes or Arabians, Jer 49:28-33; and on the Elamites or Persians, Jer 49:34-39.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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Cross References 20

1. S Judges 6:2
2. Joshua 11:1
3. S Jeremiah 10:22
4. Ezekiel 38:11
5. S Judges 6:5
6. ver 29
7. ver 36; Jeremiah 13:24
8. S Jeremiah 9:26
9. S Joshua 11:1
10. S Isaiah 13:22
11. Jeremiah 48:9; Jeremiah 10:22
12. S ver 18; Jeremiah 51:37
13. S Genesis 10:22
14. 2 Kings 24:18
15. S Psalms 37:15; S Isaiah 22:6
16. S ver 32
17. Daniel 11:4
18. Jeremiah 30:24
19. Jeremiah 9:16; Ezekiel 32:24
20. S Jeremiah 48:47

Footnotes 1

[a] Or "who clip the hair by their foreheads"