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Jeremiah 49:25

in Jeremiah 49

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

KJV

How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

This verse in Jeremiah 49

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
How is the city of praise not left,.... The city of Damascus, famous for its antiquity, its wealth and riches, strength and power; and with the Heathens for its devotion and superstition. So Julian (i) the emperor calls it, "the truly city of Jupiter; the eye of the whole east; Damascus the holy and the greatest;'' but more especially for its delightful and pleasant situation.

This site's exposition

Concerning Damascus

on Jeremiah 49:23-27

Damascus “has become feeble,” seized by anguish “like a woman in labor,” the figure these oracles use of Moab and Edom. “How is the city of praise not forsaken,” mourns a capital Assyria had already taken (2 Kings 16:9). The fire on “the fortresses of Ben-hadad” strikes the royal house.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It was a city of joy, where there was an affluence and confluence of all the delights of the sons of men, and abundance of mirth in the enjoyment of them. We read it (though there is no necessity for this) the city of my joy, which the prophet himself had sometimes visited with pleasure.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

An exclamation of sorrow wrung from the prophet at the thought of the people of Damascus remaining to be slaughtered. The words my joy express the prophet’s own sympathy. The praise of Damascus for beauty has been universal from the days of Naaman 2Ki 5:12, to those of recent travelers.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

city of praise--The prophet, in the person of a citizen of Damascus deploring its calamity, calls it "the city of praise," that is, celebrated with praises everywhere for its beauty (Jer 33:9; "How is it possible that such a city has not been left whole--has not been spared by the foe?" Compare left, Lu 17:35, 36.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

How is the city of praise not left - Damascus is so ruined that she can no more be called a praiseworthy or happy city.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֵ֥יךְhow!

    ʾeikhH349 →82 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • עֻזְּבָ֖הit has been forsaken

    ʾuzevahH5800 →215 times

  • עִ֣ירa city of

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • תְּהִלָּ֑תpraise

    tehilahH8416 →56 times

  • קִרְיַ֖ת[the] town of

    kiryatH7151 →

  • מְשׂוֹשִֽׂי׃joy my

    mesosiH4885 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Revelation 18:10

    In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

    it leads to

    • Revelation 18:19

      Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her…

    • Revelation 18:8

      Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

    • Revelation 18:15–17

      The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

    • Revelation 14:8

      Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

    • Amos 5:16

      Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 33:9

    So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 60:5

      Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will…

    • Psalms 126:2–3

      Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 51:41

    How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 25:26

      all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.