(KJV) Jeremiah 491

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⥃Judgment on the Ammonites

[1] Concerning2 the Ammonites3, thus saith the Lord; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king4 inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities5?6 [2] Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will7 cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah8 of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters9 shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel10 be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the Lord. [3] Howl11, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird12 you with sackcloth; lament, and run13 to and fro by the hedges; for their king14 shall go15 into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together. [4] Wherefore gloriest16 thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley17, O backsliding18 daughter? that trusted19 in her treasures, [saying], Who20 shall come unto me? [5] Behold, I will21 bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall22 be driven out every man right forth; and none23 shall gather up him that wandereth. [6] And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.24

⥃Judgment on Edom [ Obadiah 1:1–14 ]

[7] Concerning Edom25, thus saith the Lord of hosts; [Is] wisdom26 no more in Teman27? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? [8] Flee28 ye, turn back29, dwell30 deep, O inhabitants of Dedan31; for32 I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I will visit him. [9] If grapegatherers33 come to thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough34. [10] But I have made35 Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret36 places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed37 is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he [is] not38. [11] Leave thy fatherless39 children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy40 widows trust in me. [12] For thus saith the Lord; Behold, they whose41 judgment [was] not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and [art] thou he [that] shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink [of it]. [13] For I have42 sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah43 shall become a desolation44, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. [14] I have heard45 a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador46 is sent unto the heathen, [saying], Gather47 ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. [15] For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, [and] despised among men.48 [16] Thy terribleness49 hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest50 in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though51 thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. [17] Also Edom52 shall be a desolation: every53 one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss54 at all the plagues thereof. [18] As in the55 overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the Lord, no man56 shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. [19] Behold, he shall come57 up like a lion from the swelling58 of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man], [that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like59 me? and who will appoint me the time60? and who [is] that shepherd61 that will stand before me? [20] Therefore hear the counsel62 of the Lord, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman63: Surely64 the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make65 their habitations desolate with them. [21] The earth66 is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea67. [22] Behold, he shall68 come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah69: and at that day shall the heart of the70 mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

⥃Judgment on Damascus [ Isaiah 17:1–14 ]

[23] Concerning Damascus71. Hamath72 is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted73; [there is] sorrow74 on the sea75; it cannot be quiet. [24] Damascus is waxed feeble, [and] turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish76 and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. [25] How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!77 [26] Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.78 [27] And I will79 kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben–hadad80.

⥃Judgment on Kedar and Hazor

[28] Concerning Kedar81, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor82, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the Lord; Arise83 ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil84 the men of the east. [29] Their tents85 and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains86, and all their vessels, and their camels87; and they shall cry unto them, Fear88 [is] on every side.

[30] [¶]Flee, get you far off89, dwell90 deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the Lord; for91 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. [31] Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation92, that93 dwelleth without care, saith the Lord, which have neither gates nor bars, [which] dwell94 alone. [32] And their camels95 shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter96 into all winds them [that are] in the utmost corners97; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the Lord. [33] And Hazor98 shall be a dwelling99 for dragons, [and] a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.

⥃Judgment on Elam

[34] The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam100 in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,101 [35] Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break102 the bow103 of Elam, the chief of their might. [36] And upon Elam will I bring the four winds104 from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter105 them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts106 of Elam shall not come. [37] For I will cause Elam to be107 dismayed before their enemies108, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the Lord; and I will send the sword109 after them, till I have consumed them: [38] And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the Lord.110

[39] [¶]But it shall come to pass in the111 latter days, [that] I will112 bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord.

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  1. Jer 49:1, The judgment of the Ammonites; Jer 49:6, Their restoration; Jer 49:7, The judgment of Edom; Jer 49:23, of Damascus; Jer 49:28, of Kedar; Jer 49:30, of Hazor; Jer 49:34, and of Elam; Jer 49:39, The restoration of Elam. ↩

  2. or, Against, Jer 49:7, Jer 49:23, Jer 49:28, Jer 48:1 ↩

  3. Jer 25:9, Jer 25:21, Jer 27:3; Gen 19:38; Deut 2:19, Deut 23:3; 2Chr 20:1, 2Chr 20:23; Ps 83:7; Ezek 21:28-32, Ezek 25:2-10; Amos 1:13-15; Zeph 2:8-11 ↩

  4. or, Melcom, Judg 10:7-8, Judg 11:13-15; 1Sam 11:1-3; 2Kgs 10:33, 2Kgs 24:2; Neh 2:19, Neh 4:7; Neh 13:1-2 ↩

  5. Ps 9:6 ↩

  6. am 3421, bc 583 ↩

  7. Jer 4:19; Ezek 25:4-6; Amos 1:14 ↩

  8. Deut 3:11; Josh 13:24-25; Ezek 21:20, Rabbath ↩

  9. Num 21:25 *marg. 2Sam 11:1, 2Sam 12:27-29; Ps 48:11, Ps 97:8; Ezek 16:46-55 ↩

  10. Jer 49:1; Isa 14:1-3; Obad 1:19 ↩

  11. Jer 48:20, Jer 51:8; Isa 13:6, Isa 14:31, Isa 15:2, Isa 16:7, Isa 23:1, Isa 23:6; Jas 5:1 ↩

  12. Jer 4:8, Jer 6:26, Jer 48:37; Isa 32:11-12 ↩

  13. Job 30:3-7; Isa 15:2 ↩

  14. or, Melcom, Jer 49:1; 1Kgs 11:5, 1Kgs 11:33; 2Kgs 23:13, Milcom, Zeph 1:5, Malcham ↩

  15. Jer 46:25, Jer 48:7; Amos 1:15 ↩

  16. Jer 9:23; Isa 28:1-4, Isa 47:7-8; Rev 18:7 ↩

  17. or, they valley floweth away ↩

  18. Jer 3:14, Jer 7:24; Hos 4:16 ↩

  19. Jer 48:7; Ps 49:6, Ps 52:7, Ps 62:10; Prov 10:15; Ezek 28:4-7; 1Tim 6:17 ↩

  20. Jer 49:16, Jer 21:13; Obad 1:4-5 ↩

  21. Jer 49:29, Jer 15:8, Jer 20:4, Jer 48:41-44; Josh 2:9; 2Kgs 7:6-7, 2Kgs 19:7; Job 15:21; Prov 28:1 ↩

  22. Jer 46:5; Amos 4:3 ↩

  23. Isa 16:3; Obad 1:12-14 ↩

  24. Jer 49:39, Jer 46:26, Jer 48:47; Isa 19:18-23, Isa 23:18; Ezek 16:53 ↩

  25. Jer 25:9, Jer 25:21; Gen 25:30, Gen 27:41, Gen 36:8; Num 20:14-21, Num 24:17-18; Deut 23:7; Ps 83:4-10, Ps 137:7; Isa 34:1-17, Isa 63:1-6; Ezek 25:12-14, Ezek 35:1-15; Dan 11:41; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11-12; Obad 1:1-9; Mal 1:3-4 ↩

  26. Jer 18:18; Job 5:12-14; Isa 19:11-13, Isa 29:14; Obad 1:8; Rom 1:22-23 ↩

  27. Jer 49:20; Gen 36:11, Gen 36:15; 1Chr 1:53; Job 2:11, Job 4:1; Ezek 25:13; Amos 1:12; Obad 1:9; Hab 3:3 ↩

  28. Jer 49:30, Jer 6:1, Jer 48:6; Matt 24:15-18; Rev 6:15 ↩

  29. or, they are turned back ↩

  30. Jer 48:28; Judg 6:2; 1Sam 13:6; Isa 2:21; Amos 9:1-3; Obad 1:3-4 ↩

  31. Jer 25:23; Isa 21:13 ↩

  32. Jer 49:32, Jer 46:21, Jer 48:44; Lam 4:21-22 ↩

  33. Isa 17:6; Obad 1:5-6 ↩

  34. Heb. their sufficiency ↩

  35. Mal 1:3-4; Rom 9:13 ↩

  36. Jer 23:24; Isa 45:3; Amos 9:3 ↩

  37. Ps 37:28; Isa 14:20-22; Obad 1:9 ↩

  38. Ps 37:35-36; Isa 17:14 ↩

  39. Deut 10:18; Ps 10:14-18, Ps 68:5, Ps 82:3, Ps 146:9; Prov 23:10-11; Hos 14:3; Jonah 4:11; Mal 3:5; Jas 1:27 ↩

  40. 1Tim 5:5 ↩

  41. Jer 25:28-29, Jer 30:11, Jer 46:27; Prov 17:5; Lam 4:21-22; Obad 1:16; 1Pet 4:17-18 ↩

  42. Jer 44:26; Gen 22:16; Isa 45:23; Ezek 35:11; Amos 6:8 ↩

  43. Jer 49:22; Gen 36:33; Isa 34:6, Isa 63:1; Amos 1:12 ↩

  44. Jer 49:17-18; Isa 34:9-15; Ezek 25:13-14, Ezek 35:2-15; Joel 3:19; Obad 1:18; Mal 1:3-4 ↩

  45. Jer 51:46; Isa 37:7; Ezek 7:25-26; Obad 1:1; Matt 24:6 ↩

  46. Isa 18:2-3, Isa 30:4 ↩

  47. Jer 50:9-16, Jer 51:11, Jer 51:27-28; Isa 13:2-3 ↩

  48. 1Sam 2:7-8, 1Sam 2:30; Ps 53:5; Obad 1:2; Mic 7:10; Luke 1:51 ↩

  49. Jer 48:29; Prov 16:18, Prov 18:21, Prov 29:23; Isa 25:4-5, Isa 49:25; Obad 1:3 ↩

  50. Song 2:14; Isa 2:21 ↩

  51. Jer 48:28; Job 39:27; Isa 14:13-15; Ezek 28:11-19; Amos 9:2; Obad 1:4 ↩

  52. Jer 49:13; Isa 34:9-15; Ezek 25:13, Ezek 35:7, Ezek 35:15 ↩

  53. Jer 18:16, Jer 50:13 ↩

  54. Jer 51:37; 1Kgs 9:8; 2Chr 7:20-21; Lam 2:15-16; Mic 6:16; Zeph 2:15 ↩

  55. Jer 50:40; Gen 19:24-25; Deut 29:23; Ps 11:6; Isa 13:19-22; Amos 4:11; Zeph 2:9; 2Pet 2:6; Jude 1:7 ↩

  56. Jer 49:33; Job 18:15-18; Isa 34:10; Rev 18:21-23 ↩

  57. Jer 4:7, Jer 50:44-46; Zech 11:3 ↩

  58. Jer 12:5; Josh 3:15; 1Chr 12:15 ↩

  59. Exod 15:11; Ps 89:6, Ps 89:8, Ps 113:5-6; Isa 40:25 ↩

  60. or, convent me in judgment, Job 9:19, Job 9:21, Job 23:3-7, Job 40:2-8, Job 42:3-5; Ps 143:2 ↩

  61. Jer 30:21; Job 41:10; Ps 76:7; Nah 1:6; Rev 6:17 ↩

  62. Jer 50:45; Ps 33:11; Prov 19:21; Isa 14:24-27, Isa 46:10-11; Acts 4:28; Eph 1:11 ↩

  63. Jer 49:7; Job 6:19-20 ↩

  64. The prophet having given the name of the shepherd to the generals of the army, pursues the same metaphor, calling the common soldiers, "the least of the flock;" who shall have strength and courage enough to the defeat the Idumean forces. Jer 37:10, Jer 50:45; Zech 4:6; 1Cor 1:27-29 ↩

  65. Jer 49:13, Jer 49:17-18; Mal 1:3-4 ↩

  66. Jer 50:46; Isa 14:4-15; Ezek 26:15-18, Ezek 21:16, Ezek 32:10; Rev 18:10 ↩

  67. Heb. Weedy sea ↩

  68. Jer 4:13, Jer 48:40-41; Deut 28:49; Dan 7:4; Hos 8:1 ↩

  69. Jer 49:13 ↩

  70. Jer 49:24, Jer 4:31, Jer 6:24, Jer 13:21, Jer 22:23, Jer 30:6, Jer 48:41; Ps 18:5; Isa 13:8, Isa 21:3; Isa 26:17; 1Thess 5:3 ↩

  71. Gen 14:15, Gen 15:2; 1Kgs 11:24; Isa 17:1-3, Isa 37:13; Amos 1:3-5; Zech 9:1-2; 2Cor 11:32 ↩

  72. Num 13:21; 2Sam 8:9; 2Kgs 17:24, 2Kgs 18:34, 2Kgs 19:13; Isa 10:9, Isa 11:11 ↩

  73. Heb. melted, Deut 20:8 *marg. Josh 2:11, Josh 14:8; 2Sam 17:10; Isa 13:7; Nah 2:10 ↩

  74. Isa 57:20 ↩

  75. or, as on the sea, Ps 107:26-27; Luke 8:23-24, Luke 21:25-26; Acts 27:20 ↩

  76. Jer 49:22 ↩

  77. Jer 33:9, Jer 48:2, Jer 48:39, Jer 51:41; Ps 37:35-36; Isa 1:26, Isa 14:4-6; Dan 4:30; Rev 18:10, Rev 18:16-19 ↩

  78. Jer 9:21, Jer 11:22, Jer 50:30, Jer 51:3-4; Lam 2:21; Ezek 27:27; Amos 4:10 ↩

  79. Amos 1:3-5 ↩

  80. 1Kgs 15:18-20, 1Kgs 20:1-22; 2Kgs 13:5 ↩

  81. Jer 2:10; Gen 25:13; 1Chr 1:29; Song 1:5; Isa 21:13, Isa 21:16-17, Isa 42:11; Ezek 27:21 ↩

  82. Jer 49:30, Jer 49:33 ↩

  83. Jer 49:14, Jer 49:31, Jer 50:14-16; Isa 13:2-5 ↩

  84. Gen 25:6; Judg 6:3; Job 1:3; Isa 11:14 ↩

  85. Ps 120:5; Isa 13:20, Isa 60:7 ↩

  86. Jer 4:20, Jer 10:20; Hab 3:7 ↩

  87. Gen 37:25; Judg 6:5, Judg 7:12, Judg 8:21, Judg 8:26; 1Chr 5:20-21; Job 1:3 ↩

  88. Jer 49:24, Jer 6:25, Jer 20:3-4 *marg. Jer 46:5; Ps 31:13; 2Cor 4:8, 2Cor 7:5 ↩

  89. Heb. flit greatly ↩

  90. Jer 49:8 ↩

  91. Jer 25:9, Jer 25:24-25, Jer 27:6; Isa 10:7 ↩

  92. or, nation that is at ease, Jer 48:11; Ps 123:4; Isa 32:9, Isa 32:11 ↩

  93. Judg 18:7-10, Judg 18:27; Isa 47:8; Ezek 30:9, Ezek 38:11, Ezek 39:6; Nah 1:12; Zeph 2:15 ↩

  94. Num 23:9; Deut 33:28; Judg 18:28; Mic 7:14 ↩

  95. Jer 49:29 ↩

  96. Jer 49:36; Deut 28:64; Ezek 5:10, Ezek 5:12, Ezek 12:14-15 ↩

  97. Heb. cut off into corners, or, that have the corners of their hair polled, Jer 9:26, Jer 25:23 *marg. ↩

  98. Hazor as well as Kedar, with which it is joined (Jer 49:28), was no doubt situated in Arabia, and a place of considerable importance; but it is now no more, and its very name seems to have perished. ↩

  99. Jer 49:17-18, Jer 9:11, Jer 10:22, Jer 50:39-40, Jer 51:37; Isa 13:20-22, Isa 14:23, Isa 34:9-17; Zeph 2:9, Zeph 2:13-15; Mal 1:3; Rev 18:2, Rev 18:21-22 ↩

  100. Elam, the Elymais of the Greeks and Romans, was properly a province of the Persian empire, between Media and Susiana; but sometimes the name Elam is used in a larger sense, including Susiana and other provinces (see Dan 8:2), all of which were subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards restored and raised to dignity by Cyrus. Jer 25:25; Gen 10:22, Gen 14:1; Ezra 4:9; Isa 21:2; Ezek 32:24-25; Dan 8:2; Acts 2:9 ↩

  101. Cir, am 3406, bc 598 ↩

  102. Jer 50:14, Jer 50:29, Jer 51:56; Ps 46:9; Isa 22:6 ↩

  103. Strabo says that the mountainous part of Elymais chiefly bred archers; and Livy speaks of Elymei sagittarii "the Elymean archers." ↩

  104. Dan 7:2-3, Dan 8:8, Dan 8:22, Dan 11:4; Rev 7:1 ↩

  105. Jer 49:32; Deut 28:25, Deut 28:64; Ezek 5:10, Ezek 5:12; Amos 9:9 ↩

  106. Jer 30:17; Ps 147:2; Isa 11:12, Isa 16:3-4, Isa 27:13, Isa 56:8 ↩

  107. Jer 49:5, Jer 49:22, Jer 49:24, Jer 49:29, Jer 48:39, Jer 50:36; Ps 48:4-6; Ezek 32:23 *marg. ↩

  108. Jer 34:20-21 ↩

  109. Jer 9:16, Jer 48:2; Lev 26:33; Ezek 5:2, Ezek 5:12, Ezek 12:14 ↩

  110. Jer 43:10; Dan 7:9-14 ↩

  111. Jer 48:47; Isa 2:2; Ezek 38:16; Dan 2:28, Dan 10:14; Hos 3:5; Mic 4:1 ↩

  112. Jer 49:6; Job 42:10; Ezek 16:53-55, Ezek 29:14, Ezek 39:25; Amos 9:14 ↩