Jeremiah 49:23-27

Judgment on Damascus

23 Concerning Damascus: ¹ “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; ^[a] their anxiety cannot be calmed.

24 Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor.

25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?

26 For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

27 “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

Jeremiah 49:23-27 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. (Isaiah 17:1–14)

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew on the sea or by the sea