Jeremiah 49:10
If ye will indeed dwell in this land, I will build you, and will not pull you down, but will plant you, and in nowise pluck you up: for I have ceased from the calamities which I brought upon you.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
9and he said to them, Thus saith the Lord;
Cross References
Isaiah 14:20As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure forever— thou an evil seed.
Isaiah 45:3And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, I will open to thee hidden, unseen treasures, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord thy God, that call thee by name, am the God of Israel.
Amos 9:3If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from my presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.
Malachi 1:3and hated Esau, and laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?
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 →