Jeremiah 49:4

Why gloriest thou in the valleys, 1 thy flowing emek (valley), O Bat hashovevah (backsliding Daughter)? 1 That trusted in her otzarot, saying: 1 Who shall come unto Me? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?

In Context

3Wail, O Cheshbon, for Ai is plundered: 1 cry out, ye banot of Rabbah, 1 gird you with sackcloth; 1 lament, and rush to and fro inside the walls; 1 for Malcam (Molech) shall go into Golus, 1 and his kohanim and his sarim together. 1

5Hineni, I will bring a pachad (terror) upon thee, 1 saith Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os, 1 from all those that be around thee; 1 and ye shall be driven out, every ish before him; 1 and none shall gather up the fugitive.

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Cross References

Psalms 52:7El shall likewise demolish thee for netzach (eternity), 1 He shall break thee, and pluck thee out of thy ohel, 1 and uproot thee out of the Eretz Chayyim. 1 Selah 1

Proverbs 10:15The oisherʼs wealth is his strong city; 1 the destruction of the poor ones is their poverty. 1

Isaiah 47:7And thou saidst: 1 I shall be a Geveret ad l'olam (Lady forever): 1 so that thou didst not lay these things to thy lev, 1 neither didst remember her + 47:7 Babylonʼs acharit (latter end, i.e. future destruction). 1

Jeremiah 7:24But they paid heed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the inclinations of the stubbornness of their lev harah (evil heart), and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 21:13Hineni, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the emek (valley), 1 and tzur (rock) of the plain, saith Hashem; 1 which say, Who shall come down against us? 1 Or who shall enter into our me'onot (dwelling places, homes)? 1

Jeremiah 49:16Thy fierceness hath deceived thee, 1 and the zadon (pride, malice) of thine lev, 1 O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, 1 that holdest the height of the hill; 1 though thou shouldest make thy ken (nest) as high as the nesher, 1 I will bring thee down from there, saith Hashem.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:2-7

The Judgment of Ammonites. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the Lord ; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the Lord . 3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled:… Read the whole commentary →

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