Bible Strands
Jeremiah 49:33
“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord speaks through Jeremiah concerning the judgment of Hazor during the beginning of Zedekiah’s reign. The oracle follows a declaration of scattered plunder and imminent calamity against a northern nation.
The words — The text uses תַּנִּים (ta.Nim) for jackals and שְׁמָמָה (she.ma.Mah) for desolation. These terms describe the permanent state of the city as an uninhabited ruin.
The thread — This desolation motif appears in Jeremiah 9:11 regarding Jerusalem and Jeremiah 51:37 regarding Babylon. Each reference pairs the image of jackals with permanent uninhabitation to mark divine judgment.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that human settlement is temporary under sovereign judgment. It requires the reader to acknowledge the finality of divine decree over proud cities.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 9:11 “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Jeremiah 10:22 Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
- Jeremiah 51:37 Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- Isaiah 13:20 She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
- Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- Zephaniah 2:13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
- Malachi 1:3 but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Isaiah 14:23 “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 34:9 Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
- Jeremiah 49:17 “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.