Jeremiah 48:28
Context48:28 Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab.
Go and live in the cliffs.
Be like a dove that makes its nest
high on the sides of a ravine. 1
Jeremiah 25:22
Context25:22 all the kings of Tyre, 2 all the kings of Sidon; 3 all the kings of the coastlands along the sea; 4
Jeremiah 49:32
Context49:32 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. 5
I will bring disaster against them
from every direction,” says the Lord. 6


[48:28] 1 tn Heb “in the sides of the mouth of a pit/chasm.” The translation follows the suggestion of J. Bright, Jeremiah (AB), 321. The point of the simile is inaccessibility.
[25:22] 2 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
[25:22] 3 sn Tyre and Sidon are mentioned within the judgment on the Philistines in Jer 47:4. They were Phoenician cities to the north and west of Judah on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in what is now Lebanon.
[25:22] 4 sn The connection with Tyre and Sidon suggests that these were Phoenician colonies. See also Isa 23:2.
[49:32] 3 tn See the translator’s note at Jer 9:26 and compare the usage in 9:26 and 25:23.