Jeremiah 49:14-24

14 I have ¹heard a message from the LORD, And an ²envoy is sent among the nations, saying, "³Gather yourselves together and come against her, And rise up for battle!"

15 "For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.

16 "As for the terror of you, The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, O you who live in the clefts of the ⁴rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as ⁵high as an eagle's, I will ⁶bring you down from there," declares the LORD.

17 "Edom will become an ⁷object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will ⁸hiss at all its wounds.

18 "Like the ⁹overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors," says the LORD, "¹⁰no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

19 "¹¹Behold, one will come up like a lion from the ¹²thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is ¹³chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is ¹⁴like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd ¹⁵who can stand against Me?"

20 Therefore hear the ¹⁶plan of the LORD which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely * they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely * He will make their pasture ¹⁷desolate because of them.

21 The ¹⁸earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red * Sea.

22 Behold, He will mount up and ¹⁹swoop like an eagle and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the ²⁰hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Prophecy against Damascus

23 Concerning ²¹Damascus. "²²Hamath and ²³Arpad are put to shame, For they have heard bad news; They are ²⁴disheartened. There is anxiety by the sea, It ²⁵cannot * be calmed.

24 "Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, And panic has gripped her; ²⁶Distress and pangs have taken hold of her Like a woman in childbirth.

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Jeremiah 49:14-24 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

Cross References 26

1. Obad 1-4
2. Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 30:4
3. Jeremiah 50:14
4. 2 Kings 14:7; Jeremiah 48:28
5. Job 39:27; Isaiah 14:13-15
6. Amos 9:2
7. Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 50:13; Ezekiel 35:7
8. 1 Kings 9:8; Jeremiah 51:37
9. Genesis 19:24, 25; Deuteronomy 29:23; Jeremiah 50:40; Amos 4:11; Zephaniah 2:9
10. Job 18:15-18; Jeremiah 49:33
11. Jeremiah 50:44
12. Joshua 3:15; Jeremiah 12:5
13. Numbers 16:5
14. Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 46:9
15. Job 41:10
16. Isaiah 14:24, 27; Jeremiah 50:45
17. Malachi 1:3, 4
18. Jeremiah 50:46; Ezekiel 26:15, 18
19. Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 48:40; Hosea 8:1
20. Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 48:41
21. Genesis 14:15; Genesis 15:2; 2 Kings 5:12; 2 Chronicles 16:2; Isaiah 7:8; Isaiah 17:1; Amos 1:3; Acts 9:2
22. Numbers 13:21; Isaiah 10:9; Jeremiah 39:5; Amos 6:2
23. 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 19:13; Isaiah 10:9
24. Exodus 15:15; Nahum 2:10
25. Isaiah 57:20
26. Isaiah 13:8

Footnotes 7

[a]. Or "Sela"
[b]. Lit "pride"
[c]. Or "an enduring habitation"
[d]. Or "habitation"
[e]. Lit "Sea of Reeds"
[f]. Or "one"
[g]. Or "over"