Jeremiah 49:23-29

A Message About Damascus

23 Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are dismayed, for they have heard bad news. They are disheartened, troubled like[a] the restless sea.
24 Damascus has become feeble, she has turned to flee and panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her, pain like that of a woman in labor.
25 Why has the city of renown not been abandoned, the town in which I delight?
26 Surely, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD Almighty.
27 “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.”

A Message About Kedar and Hazor

28 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked: This is what the LORD says: “Arise, and attack Kedar and destroy the people of the East.
29 Their tents and their flocks will be taken; their shelters will be carried off with all their goods and camels. People will shout to them, ‘Terror on every side!’

Cross References 17

  • 1. S Genesis 14:15; 2 Kings 14:28; 2 Chronicles 16:2; Acts 9:2
  • 2. 1 Kings 8:65; Isaiah 10:9; Ezekiel 47:16; Amos 6:2; Zechariah 9:2
  • 3. S 2 Kings 18:34; S 2 Kings 19:13
  • 4. S Genesis 49:4; Isaiah 57:20
  • 5. Jeremiah 13:21
  • 6. S Isaiah 9:17; S Isaiah 13:18
  • 7. Isaiah 17:12-14; Jeremiah 50:30
  • 8. Jeremiah 21:14; Jeremiah 43:12; Jeremiah 50:32; Ezekiel 30:8; Ezekiel 39:6; Amos 1:4
  • 9. S Genesis 14:15
  • 10. Isaiah 17:1
  • 11. S 1 Kings 15:18
  • 12. S Genesis 25:13
  • 13. S Joshua 11:1
  • 14. S Jeremiah 10:22
  • 15. S Judges 6:3
  • 16. ver 32
  • 17. S Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 46:5

Footnotes 1

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