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Text -- Jeremiah 49:7-39 (NET)
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Judgment Against Edom
49:7 The Lord who rules over all spoke about Edom . “Is wisdom no longer to be found in Teman ? Can Edom’s counselors not give her any good advice ? Has all of their wisdom turned bad ?
49:8 Turn and flee ! Take up refuge in remote places , you people who live in Dedan . For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau . I have decided it is time for me to punish them.
49:9 If grape pickers came to pick your grapes, would they not leave a few grapes behind ? If robbers came at night , would they not pillage only what they needed ?
49:10 But I will strip everything away from Esau’s descendants. I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide . Their children , relatives , and neighbors will all be destroyed . Not one of them will be left!
49:11 Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive . Your widows too can depend on me.”
49:12 For the Lord says , “If even those who did not deserve to drink from the cup of my wrath must drink from it, do you think you will go unpunished ? You will not go unpunished , but must certainly drink from the cup of my wrath.
49:13 For I solemnly swear ,” says the Lord , “that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins . It will become an object of horror and ridicule , an example to be used in curses . All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever .”
49:14 I said, “I have heard a message from the Lord . A messenger has been sent among the nations to say, ‘Gather your armies and march out against her! Prepare to do battle with her!’”
49:15 The Lord says to Edom, “I will certainly make you small among nations . I will make you despised by all humankind .
49:16 The terror you inspire in others and the arrogance of your heart have deceived you. You may make your home in the clefts of the rocks ; you may occupy the highest places in the hills . But even if you made your home where the eagles nest , I would bring you down from there ,” says the Lord .
49:17 “Edom will become an object of horror . All who pass by it will be filled with horror ; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
49:18 Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there . No human being will settle in it,” says the Lord .
49:19 “A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose . For there is no one like me , and there is no one who can call me to account . There is no ruler who can stand up against me.
49:20 So listen to what I, the Lord , have planned against Edom , what I intend to do to the people who live in Teman . Their little ones will be dragged off . I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.
49:21 The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall . Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba .
49:22 Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings , a nation will soar up and swoop down on Bozrah . At that time the soldiers of Edom will be as fearful as a woman in labor .”
Judgment Against Damascus
49:23 The Lord spoke about Damascus . “The people of Hamath and Arpad will be dismayed because they have heard bad news . Their courage will melt away because of worry . Their hearts will not be able to rest .
49:24 The people of Damascus will lose heart and turn to flee . Panic will grip them. Pain and anguish will seize them like a woman in labor .
49:25 How deserted will that once-famous city be, that city that was once filled with joy !
49:26 For her young men will fall in her city squares . All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time ,” says the Lord who rules over all .
49:27 “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus ; it will burn up the palaces of Ben Hadad .”
Judgment Against Kedar and Hazor
49:28 The Lord spoke about Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered . “Army of Babylon , go and attack Kedar . Lay waste those who live in the eastern desert.
49:29 Their tents and their flocks will be taken away . Their tent curtains , equipment , and camels will be carried off . People will shout to them, ‘Terror is all around you!’”
49:30 The Lord says , “Flee quickly, you who live in Hazor . Take up refuge in remote places . For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has laid out plans to attack you. He has formed his strategy on how to defeat you.”
49:31 The Lord says , “Army of Babylon, go and attack a nation that lives in peace and security . They have no gates or walls to protect them. They live all alone .
49:32 Their camels will be taken as plunder . Their vast herds will be taken as spoil . I will scatter to the four winds those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples . I will bring disaster against them from every direction ,” says the Lord .
49:33 “Hazor will become a permanent wasteland , a place where only jackals live . No one will live there . No human being will settle in it.”
Judgment Against Elam
49:34 Early in the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah , the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam .
49:35 The Lord who rules over all said , “I will kill all the archers of Elam , who are the chief source of her military might .
49:36 I will cause enemies to blow through Elam from every direction like the winds blowing in from the four quarters of heaven . I will scatter the people of Elam to the four winds . There will not be any nation where the refugees of Elam will not go .
49:37 I will make the people of Elam terrified of their enemies , who are seeking to kill them. I will vent my fierce anger and bring disaster upon them,” says the Lord . “I will send armies chasing after them until I have completely destroyed them.
49:38 I will establish my sovereignty over Elam . I will destroy their king and their leaders ,” says the Lord .
49:39 “Yet in days to come I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune .” says the Lord .
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NET Notes -> Jer 49:7; Jer 49:7; Jer 49:7; Jer 49:7; Jer 49:7; Jer 49:8; Jer 49:8; Jer 49:8; Jer 49:9; Jer 49:9; Jer 49:11; Jer 49:12; Jer 49:12; Jer 49:13; Jer 49:13; Jer 49:13; Jer 49:14; Jer 49:14; Jer 49:15; Jer 49:16; Jer 49:16; Jer 49:17; Jer 49:19; Jer 49:19; Jer 49:19; Jer 49:19; Jer 49:19; Jer 49:19; Jer 49:19; Jer 49:20; Jer 49:20; Jer 49:20; Jer 49:21; Jer 49:21; Jer 49:22; Jer 49:23; Jer 49:23; Jer 49:23; Jer 49:23; Jer 49:23; Jer 49:25; Jer 49:25; Jer 49:25; Jer 49:26; Jer 49:27; Jer 49:28; Jer 49:28; Jer 49:28; Jer 49:28; Jer 49:29; Jer 49:29; Jer 49:30; Jer 49:30; Jer 49:30; Jer 49:30; Jer 49:31; Jer 49:31; Jer 49:31; Jer 49:32; Jer 49:32; Jer 49:33; Jer 49:33; Jer 49:34; Jer 49:34; Jer 49:34; Jer 49:35; Jer 49:36; Jer 49:37; Jer 49:37; Jer 49:37; Jer 49:38; Jer 49:38; Jer 49:38; Jer 49:39; Jer 49:39; Jer 49:39
NET Notes: Jer 49:7 The meaning of this last word is based on the definition given in KBL 668 s.v. II סָרַח Nif and HALOT 726 s.v. II ס...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:8 Heb “For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him, the time when I will punish him.” Esau was the progenitor of the tribes and nation of...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:9 The tense and nuance of the verb translated “pillage” are both different than the verb in Obad 5. There the verb is the imperfect of ...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:11 Or “Their children and relatives will all be destroyed. And none of their neighbors will say, ‘Leave your orphans with me and I’ll k...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:12 The reference here is to the cup of God’s wrath which is connected with the punishment of war at the hands of the Babylonians referred to alread...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:14 Heb “Rise up for battle.” The idea “against her” is implicit from the context and has been supplied in the translation for cla...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:15 The words “The Lord says to Edom” are not in the text. They have been supplied in the translation to mark the shift from the address of th...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:16 The Hebrew text of the first four lines reads: “Your terror [= the terror you inspire] has deceived you, [and] the arrogance of your heart, you ...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:17 This verse is very similar to Jer 19:8 where the same judgment is pronounced on Jerusalem. For the meaning of some of the terms here (“hiss out ...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:19 The word “shepherd” (רֹעֶה, ro’eh) has been used often in the book of Jeremiah to refer metaphorically...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:20 Heb “They will surely drag them off, namely the young ones of the flock. He will devastate their habitation [or their sheepfold] on account of t...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:21 Heb “the Red Sea,” of which the Gulf of Aqaba formed the northeastern arm. The land of Edom once reached this far according to 1 Kgs 9:26.
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NET Notes: Jer 49:22 Compare Jer 48:40-41 for a similar prophecy about Moab. The parallelism here suggests that Bozrah, like Teman in v. 20, is a poetic equivalent for Edo...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:23 The meaning of this verse is very uncertain. The Hebrew text apparently reads “Hamath and Arpad are dismayed. They melt away because they have h...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:25 Or “Why has that famous city not been abandoned, that city I once took delight in?” The translation follows the majority of modern comment...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:26 Heb “Oracle of Yahweh of armies.” For this title for God see the study note on 2:19.
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NET Notes: Jer 49:27 Ben-Hadad was a common name borne by a number of the kings of Damascus, e.g., one during the time of Asa around 900 b.c. (cf. 1 Kgs 15:18-20), one a l...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:28 Heb “the children of the east.” Nothing much is known about them other than their association with the Midianites and Amalekites in their ...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:29 This expression is a favorite theme in the book of Jeremiah. It describes the terrors of war awaiting the people of Judah and Jerusalem (6:25), the Eg...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:31 Heb “no gates and no bar,” i.e., “that lives securely without gates or bars.” The phrase is used by the figure of species for ...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:33 Compare Jer 49:18 and 50:40 where the same thing is said about Edom and Babylon.
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NET Notes: Jer 49:34 Elam was a country on the eastern side of the Tigris River in what is now southwestern Iran. Its capital city was Susa. It was destroyed in 640 b.c. b...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:35 Heb “I will break the bow of Elam, the chief source of their might.” The phrase does not mean that God will break literal bows or that he ...
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NET Notes: Jer 49:36 Or more simply, “I will bring enemies against Elam from every direction. / And I will scatter the people of Elam to the four winds. // There won...
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