Jeremiah 49:13-18

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

14 I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy was sent to the nations to say, “Assemble yourselves to attack it! Rise up for battle!”

15 “Now I will make you small among the nations, despised by mankind.

16 The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

17 “Edom will become an object of horror; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

18 As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, along with their neighboring towns,” says the LORD, “so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.

Jeremiah 49:13-18 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 22:16
• 2. S Genesis 36:33; Isaiah 34:6
• 3. ver 17
• 4. Jeremiah 42:18
• 5. S Jeremiah 19:8; Ezekiel 35:9
• 6. Ezekiel 35:13; Obadiah 1:12
• 7. S Job 39:28
• 8. S Job 39:27; Amos 9:2
• 9. ver 13
• 10. S Deuteronomy 29:22; Jeremiah 50:13; Ezekiel 35:7
• 11. Jeremiah 23:14
• 12. S Genesis 19:24; Deuteronomy 29:23
• 13. ver 33; S Isaiah 34:10

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.