Bible Strands
Jeremiah 49:17
“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Jeremiah pronounces a divine oracle against Edom immediately after declaring that their mountain fortresses and pride cannot prevent their downfall.
The words — The noun שְׁמָמָה (sha.Mah, H8047) literally means a desolate ruin or horror, and the verb שָׁרַק (yish.Rok, H8319) describes the act of hissing or scoffing.
The thread — The motif of a place becoming a desolation cited by Jeremiah appears in Jeremiah 49:13 regarding Bozrah, Jeremiah 50:13 regarding Babylon, and Ezekiel 35:7 regarding Mount Seir.
Why it lands — The passage states that Edom will be left as a public spectacle of ruin, requiring the reader to acknowledge that fortified pride cannot withstand divine judgment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 35:7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
- Jeremiah 50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
- Jeremiah 49:13 For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
- 1 Kings 9:8 And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
- Jeremiah 18:16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
- Jeremiah 51:37 Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
- Isaiah 34:9 Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
- Lamentations 2:15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- Ezekiel 25:13 therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.