Jeremiah 49:25

²³ Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.

²⁴ Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor.

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?

²⁶ For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

²⁷ “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

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.

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BSB: How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
KJV: How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
WEB: How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
ASV: How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
DARBY: How is not the town of praise forsaken, the city of my joy!
BLB: How is it not abandoned—the city of praise, the city of My joy?

ÅB: Hvor den er forlatt, den lovpriste stad, min gledes by[^7]!
OTB: Hvordan har den berømte byen ikke blitt forlatt, byen som jeg gleder meg over?
B1930: Hvor den er forlatt, den lovpriste stad, min gledes by! / < således klager Damaskus' innbyggere.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 33:9
So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
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Jeremiah 51:41
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
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Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
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Isaiah 14:4–6
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
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Revelation 18:10
In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
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Jeremiah 48:39
“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
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Daniel 4:30
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
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Jeremiah 48:2
There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
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