Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor will become a lair of jackals, a permanent wasteland. 1 No one will live there; no human being will stay there.”

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And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

In Context

32For their camels will become plunder, and the abundance of their property will become war plunder. 1 Then I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, 1 and I will bring disaster on them from every side—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

34This is the word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam. This happened at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, and he said,

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:23“I will also make her into a possession of owls, and into pools of water, 1 and I will sweep her with the broom of destruction”—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts. 1

Isaiah 34:13Thorns will overgrow her palaces, nettles and thistles her fortresses. 1 It will be a habitation of jackals, a place for ostriches. 1

Jeremiah 9:11So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals. 1 I will make Judah's cities ruined places without inhabitants.” 1

Jeremiah 49:17Edom will become a horror to everyone passing by it. 1 Every such person will tremble and hiss because all of its disasters. 1

Jeremiah 50:39So desert beasts with the jackals will inhabit there, and the young of ostriches will live in her. 1 For all time, she will no longer be inhabited. From generation to generation, she will not be lived in. 1

Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as I live—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel— 1 Moab will become like Sodom, and the people of Ammon like Gomorrah; 1 a place of nettles and a salt pit, deserted forever. 1 But the remnant of my people will plunder them, and the remainder of my nation will take possession of them.”

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:29-34

The Judgment of Kedar. ( b. c. 595.) 28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the Lord ; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the Lord ; for Nebuchadrezzar… Read the whole commentary →

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