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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 49
Judgment and destruction shall come upon the Ammonites, Edom, Kedar, Hazor,
and Elam.
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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 aRabbah of
the bAmmonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her
cdaughters 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: cry, ye
daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by
the hedges; for their king shall go into acaptivity,
and his priests and his princes together.
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4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing
valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her
atreasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
6 And afterward I will abring again
the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
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7 ¶ Concerning aEdom, thus saith
the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished
from the bprudent? 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.
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9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave
some gleaning grapes? if athieves by night, they
will destroy till they have enough.
10 But I have made aEsau bare, I
have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself:
his bseed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours,
and he is not.
11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve
them alive; and let thy awidows trust in me.
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12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose
judgment was not to adrink of the cup have assuredly
drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished?
thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that
aBozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and
a curse; and all the bcities thereof shall be perpetual
wastes;
14 I have heard a arumour from the
LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the bheathen,
saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the
battle.
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15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and
the apride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the
clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou
shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from
thence, saith the LORD.
17 Also aEdom shall be a
desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at
all the plagues thereof.
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18 As in the overthrow of aSodom
and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man
shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
19 Behold, he shall come up like a
alion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of
the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is
a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me?
and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will
stand before me?
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20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
21 The earth is amoved at the noise
of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
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23 ¶ 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.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth
herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and
asorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of apraise not
bleft, the city of my joy!
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26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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28 ¶ Concerning aKedar, 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 atents and their flocks
shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their
bcurtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and
they shall cry unto them, cFear is on every
side.
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30 ¶ Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye
inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for aNebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose
against you.
31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for
adragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no
man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
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34 ¶ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah
the prophet against aElam in the beginning of the reign of
bZedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the
four aquarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all
those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam
shall not comea.
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36a there shall be no nation whither the
outcasts of Elam shall not come One considers the scattering of
Israel to be sifted amongst the nations of the earth but here also concerning
others is the same type of fate designed. All in all it seems that it is the
providence of God that all everywhere are to be so mixed that every nation
shall have within it those who have come of other nations. American has long
been stipulated the 'melting pot' of the nations of the world, but where
today can one go where not is the case? Certainly there has been a scattering
of all nations amongst all nations, and this seems the intent of God to so
continue to mix and stir the pot of humanity, mixing and scattering so that
all the nations of the earth are so effected with and by other nations of the
earth. As to what purposes other than genetic diversity and perhaps making
each of us aware of each other, only the Lord understands the fulness of the
purpose of it all.
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37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their
enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring
aevil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the
LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
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39 ¶ But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
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