Jeremiah 49:23

About Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad will be ashamed, for they have heard news of disaster. 1 They melt away! They become as troubled as the sea, which cannot stay calm. 1

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Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

In Context

22See, someone will attack like an eagle, and swoop down and spread his wings over Bozrah. 1 Then on that day, the hearts of Edom's soldiers will become like the heart of a woman in birth labor.” 1

24Damascus has become very weak. It turns away to flee; terror seizes it. 1 Distress and pain seize it, like the pain of a woman giving birth. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 15:2Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Deuteronomy 20:8The officers must speak further to the people and say, 'What man is there who is fearful or fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, so that his brother's heart does not melt like his own heart.'

Joshua 14:8But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear. But I completely followed Yahweh my God.

2 Samuel 17:10Then even the bravest soldiers, whose hearts are like the heart of a lion, will be afraid because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that the men who are with him are very strong.

2 Kings 17:24The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon and from Kuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria in place of the people of Israel. They took over Samaria and lived in its cities.

2 Kings 19:13Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the cities of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'”

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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