Jeremiah 49:23-27

A Message About Damascus

23 Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are dismayed, for they have heard bad news. They are disheartened, troubled like^[a] the restless sea.

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

25 Why has the city of renown not been abandoned, the town in which I delight?

26 Surely, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD Almighty.

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. S Genesis 14:15; 2 Kings 14:28; 2 Chronicles 16:2; Acts 9:2
• 2. 1 Kings 8:65; Isaiah 10:9; Ezekiel 47:16; Amos 6:2; Zechariah 9:2
• 3. S 2 Kings 18:34; S 2 Kings 19:13
• 4. S Genesis 49:4; Isaiah 57:20
• 5. Jeremiah 13:21
• 6. S Isaiah 9:17; S Isaiah 13:18
• 7. Isaiah 17:12-14; Jeremiah 50:30
• 8. Jeremiah 21:14; Jeremiah 43:12; Jeremiah 50:32; Ezekiel 30:8; Ezekiel 39:6; Amos 1:4
• 9. S Genesis 14:15
• 10. Isaiah 17:1
• 11. S 1 Kings 15:18

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "on" or "by"