Jeremiah 49:17

17 "Edom will become an ¹object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will ²hiss at all its wounds.

Jeremiah 49:17 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 49:17

Also Edom shall be a desolation
Not only Bozrah, its principal city, before spoken of, but the whole country of Idumea should be laid waste; its fortified cities destroyed; its riches plundered; and its inhabitants slain with the sword; or carried captive: everyone that goeth by it shall be astonished;
at the desolation made, so suddenly and so universally: and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof;
rejoice at them; clap their hands, and shake their heads, as the Targum; and hiss with their tongues, insulting and deriding them.

Jeremiah 49:17 In-Context

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 rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle's, I will bring you down from there," declares the LORD .

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

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

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

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 50:13; Ezekiel 35:7
• 2. 1 Kings 9:8; Jeremiah 51:37