Jeremiah 49:7-22

Prophecy against Edom

7 Concerning ¹Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Is there no longer any ²wisdom in ³Teman? Has good counsel been lost to the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

8 "Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of ⁴Dedan, For I will bring the ⁵disaster of Esau upon him At the time I punish him.

9 "⁶If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, They would destroy only until they had enough.

10 "But I have ⁷stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places So that he will not be able to conceal himself; His offspring has been destroyed along with his relatives And his neighbors, and ⁸he is no more.

11 "Leave your ⁹orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your ¹⁰widows trust in Me."

12 For thus says the LORD, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the ¹¹cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be ¹²completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.

13 "For I have ¹³sworn by Myself," declares the LORD, "that ¹⁴Bozrah will become an ¹⁵object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."

14 I have ¹⁶heard a message from the LORD, And an ¹⁷envoy is sent among the nations, saying, "¹⁸Gather 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 ¹⁹rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as ²⁰high as an eagle's, I will ²¹bring you down from there," declares the LORD.

17 "Edom will become an ²²object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will ²³hiss at all its wounds.

18 "Like the ²⁴overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors," says the LORD, "²⁵no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

19 "²⁶Behold, one will come up like a lion from the ²⁷thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is ²⁸chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is ²⁹like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd ³⁰who can stand against Me?"

20 Therefore hear the ³¹plan 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 ³²desolate because of them.

21 The ³³earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red * Sea.

22 Behold, He will mount up and ³⁴swoop like an eagle and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the ³⁵hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

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Jeremiah 49:7-22 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 35

1. Genesis 25:30; Genesis 32:3; Isaiah 34:5, 6; Jeremiah 25:21; Ezekiel 25:12; Amos 1:11; Obad 1-21
2. Job 2:11; Jeremiah 8:9
3. Gen 36:11, 15, 34; Jeremiah 49:20
4. Isaiah 21:13; Jeremiah 25:23
5. Jeremiah 46:21; Malachi 1:3, 4
6. Obadiah 5
7. Jeremiah 13:26
8. Isaiah 17:14
9. Psalms 68:5; Hosea 14:3
10. Psalms 68:5; Zechariah 7:10
11. Jeremiah 25:15
12. Jeremiah 25:28, 29; 1 Peter 4:17
13. Genesis 22:16; Isaiah 45:23; Jeremiah 44:26; Amos 6:8
14. Genesis 36:33; 1 Chronicles 1:44; Isaiah 34:6; Isaiah 63:1; Amos 1:12
15. Isaiah 34:9-15; Jeremiah 18:16
16. Obad 1-4
17. Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 30:4
18. Jeremiah 50:14
19. 2 Kings 14:7; Jeremiah 48:28
20. Job 39:27; Isaiah 14:13-15
21. Amos 9:2
22. Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 50:13; Ezekiel 35:7
23. 1 Kings 9:8; Jeremiah 51:37
24. Genesis 19:24, 25; Deuteronomy 29:23; Jeremiah 50:40; Amos 4:11; Zephaniah 2:9
25. Job 18:15-18; Jeremiah 49:33
26. Jeremiah 50:44
27. Joshua 3:15; Jeremiah 12:5
28. Numbers 16:5
29. Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 46:9
30. Job 41:10
31. Isaiah 14:24, 27; Jeremiah 50:45
32. Malachi 1:3, 4
33. Jeremiah 50:46; Ezekiel 26:15, 18
34. Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 48:40; Hosea 8:1
35. Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 48:41

Footnotes 14

[a]. Or "brought"
[b]. Or "punished"
[c]. Lit "their sufficiency"
[d]. Lit "seed"
[e]. Lit "brothers"
[f]. Or "fatherless"
[g]. Lit "whose judgment was not to"
[h]. Or "Sela"
[i]. Lit "pride"
[j]. Or "an enduring habitation"
[k]. Or "habitation"
[l]. Lit "Sea of Reeds"
[m]. Or "one"
[n]. Or "over"