Jeremiah 49:11-21

11 "Leave your ¹orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your ²widows trust in Me."

12 For thus says the LORD, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the ³cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be ⁴completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.

13 "For I have ⁵sworn by Myself," declares the LORD, "that ⁶Bozrah will become an ⁷object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."

14 I have ⁸heard a message from the LORD, And an ⁹envoy is sent among the nations, saying, "¹⁰Gather 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 ¹¹rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as ¹²high as an eagle's, I will ¹³bring you down from there," declares the LORD.

17 "Edom will become an ¹⁴object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will ¹⁵hiss at all its wounds.

18 "Like the ¹⁶overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors," says the LORD, "¹⁷no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

19 "¹⁸Behold, one will come up like a lion from the ¹⁹thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is ²⁰chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is ²¹like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd ²²who can stand against Me?"

20 Therefore hear the ²³plan 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 ²⁴desolate because of them.

21 The ²⁵earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red * Sea.

Jeremiah 49:11-21 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. Psalms 68:5; Hosea 14:3
• 2. Psalms 68:5; Zechariah 7:10
• 3. Jeremiah 25:15
• 4. Jeremiah 25:28, 29; 1 Peter 4:17
• 5. Genesis 22:16; Isaiah 45:23; Jeremiah 44:26; Amos 6:8
• 6. Genesis 36:33; 1 Chronicles 1:44; Isaiah 34:6; Isaiah 63:1; Amos 1:12
• 7. Isaiah 34:9-15; Jeremiah 18:16
• 8. Obad 1-4
• 9. Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 30:4
• 10. Jeremiah 50:14
• 11. 2 Kings 14:7; Jeremiah 48:28
• 12. Job 39:27; Isaiah 14:13-15
• 13. Amos 9:2
• 14. Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 50:13; Ezekiel 35:7
• 15. 1 Kings 9:8; Jeremiah 51:37
• 16. Genesis 19:24, 25; Deuteronomy 29:23; Jeremiah 50:40; Amos 4:11; Zephaniah 2:9
• 17. Job 18:15-18; Jeremiah 49:33
• 18. Jeremiah 50:44
• 19. Joshua 3:15; Jeremiah 12:5
• 20. Numbers 16:5
• 21. Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 46:9
• 22. Job 41:10
• 23. Isaiah 14:24, 27; Jeremiah 50:45
• 24. Malachi 1:3, 4
• 25. Jeremiah 50:46; Ezekiel 26:15, 18

Footnotes

• [a] Or "fatherless"
• [b] Lit "whose judgment was not to"
• [c] Or "Sela"
• [d] Lit "pride"
• [e] Or "an enduring habitation"
• [f] Or "habitation"
• [g] Lit "Sea of Reeds"