Jeremiah 49:30-33

30 “Flee quickly away! Stay in deep caves, you who live in Hazor,” declares the LORD. “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has plotted against you; he has devised a plan against you.

31 “Arise and attack a nation at ease, which lives in confidence,” declares the LORD, “a nation that has neither gates nor bars; its people live far from danger.

32 Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoils of war. I will scatter to the winds those who are in distant places^[a]and will bring disaster on them from every side,” declares the LORD.

33 “Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, a desolate place forever. No one will live there; no people will dwell in it.”

Jeremiah 49:30-33 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 Judges 6:2
• 2. Joshua 11:1
• 3. S Jeremiah 10:22
• 4. Ezekiel 38:11
• 5. S Judges 6:5
• 6. ver 29
• 7. ver 36; Jeremiah 13:24
• 8. S Jeremiah 9:26
• 9. S Joshua 11:1
• 10. S Isaiah 13:22
• 11. Jeremiah 48:9; Jeremiah 10:22
• 12. S ver 18; Jeremiah 51:37

Footnotes

• [a] Or "who clip the hair by their foreheads"