Jeremiah 49:1-13

A Message About Ammon

1 Concerning the Ammonites: This is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Has Israel no heir? Why then has Molek^[a] taken possession of Gad? Why do his people live in its towns?

2 But the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it will become a mound of ruins, and its surrounding villages will be set on fire. Then Israel will drive out those who drove her out,” says the LORD.

3 “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed! Cry out, you inhabitants of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; rush here and there inside the walls, for Molek will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.

4 Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, ‘Who will attack me?’

5 I will bring terror on you from all those around you,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty. “Every one of you will be driven away, and no one will gather the fugitives.

6 “Yet afterward, I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites,” declares the LORD.

A Message About Edom

7 Concerning Edom: This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

8 Turn and flee, hide in deep caves, you who live in Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time when I punish him.

9 If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave a few grapes? If thieves came during the night, would they not steal only as much as they wanted?

10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, so that he cannot conceal himself. His armed men are destroyed, also his allies and neighbors, so there is no one to say,

11 ‘Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.’ ”

12 This is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.

13 I swear by myself,” declares the LORD, “that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse,^[b] an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”

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Jeremiah 49:1-13 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 32

1. S Genesis 19:38; S 1 Samuel 11:1-11; 2 Samuel 10:1-19; Amos 1:13; Zephaniah 2:8-9
2. S Leviticus 18:21
3. Genesis 30:11
4. S Jeremiah 4:19
5. S Deuteronomy 3:11
6. S Deuteronomy 13:16
7. S Isaiah 14:2; S Jeremiah 30:16; Ezekiel 21:28-32; Ezekiel 25:2-11
8. S Joshua 13:26
9. S Genesis 12:8; S Joshua 8:28
10. S Genesis 37:34
11. Zephaniah 1:5
12. S Jeremiah 48:7
13. S Jeremiah 3:6
14. S Jeremiah 9:23; 1 Timothy 6:17
15. S Jeremiah 21:13
16. S Jeremiah 44:14
17. ver 39; Jeremiah 12:14-17; S Jeremiah 48:47
18. S Genesis 25:30; S Psalms 83:6; Ezekiel 25:12
19. S Ge 36:11,15,34
20. S Judges 6:2
21. S Genesis 10:7; S Genesis 25:3; Jeremiah 25:23
22. S Genesis 3:8
23. Isaiah 34:10-12; S Jeremiah 11:23; Ezekiel 35:4; Obadiah 1:18; Malachi 1:2-5
24. Hosea 14:3
25. S Deuteronomy 10:18; James 1:27
26. S Isaiah 51:23; S Jeremiah 25:15; Matthew 20:22
27. S Proverbs 11:31; Jeremiah 25:28-29
28. S Genesis 22:16
29. S Genesis 36:33; Isaiah 34:6
30. ver 17
31. Jeremiah 42:18
32. S Jeremiah 19:8; Ezekiel 35:9

Footnotes 2

[a]. Or "their king" ; also in verse 3
[b]. That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.