Jeremiah 49:15

For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

In Context

14Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight.

16... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:7The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

Psalms 53:5\53:4\Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Micah 7:10And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:8-23

The Judgment of Edom. ( b. c. 595.) 7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? 8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. 9 If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret… Read the whole commentary →

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