Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Isaiah 14:4that thou shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!
Jeremiah 48:2The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O madmen, shall be brought to silence. The sword shall pursue thee.
Jeremiah 51:41How Sheshach is taken, and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
Revelation 18:10having stood from afar because of the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! Because thy judgment has come in one hour.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:24-28
The Judgment of Damascus. ( b. c. 595.) 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are faint hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,… Read the whole commentary →