Jeremiah 49:17
15 “For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.
16 The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
18 As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- KJV
- Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- WEB
- “Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.
- ASV
- And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- DARBY
- And Edom shall be an astonishment: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because of all the plagues thereof.
- BLB
- “And Edom will become as a horror: All passing by it will be appalled, and will hiss at all her wounds.
- ÅB
- Og Edom skal bli til en forferdelse; hver den som går forbi det, skal forferdes og spotte over alle dets plager.
- OTB
- “Edom skal bli et sted for redsel; alle som går forbi vil bli forferdet og vil spotte på grunn av alle dens sår.
- B1930
- Og Edom skal bli til en forferdelse; hver den som går forbi det, skal forferdes og spotte over alle dets plager.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 35:7
I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
Read in contextJeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
Read in contextJeremiah 49:13
For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
Read in contextJeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
Read in contextJeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
Read in context1 Kings 9:8
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
Read in contextLamentations 2:15–16
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Read in contextEzekiel 35:15
As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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