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Jeremiah 49:37

in Jeremiah 49

So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life; and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith Jehovah; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

KJV

For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the Lord; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

This verse in Jeremiah 49

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The Ammonites were next, both in kindred and neighbourhood, to the Moabites, and therefore are next set to the bar. Their country joined to that of the two tribes and a half, on the other side Jordan, and was but a bad neighbour; however, being a neighbour, they shall have a share in these circular predictions.

This site's exposition

concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah

on Jeremiah 49:34-39

This oracle is dated to “the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah” and reaches Elam. The LORD will “shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.” Yet verse 39 closes, “I will restore Elam from captivity,” the promise given to Egypt in 46:26, Moab in 48:47, and Ammon in 49:6.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, God can make his judgments follow those that think by flight to escape them and to get out of the reach of them. Their princes shall be destroyed and the government quite changed (

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For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,....

The words behind it

23 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.

  • וְהַחְתַּתִּ֣יand I will shatter

    vehachtatiH2865 →52 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֵ֠ילָםElam

    ʾeilomH5867 →28 times

  • לִפְנֵ֨י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • אֹיְבֵיהֶ֜םenemies their

    ʾoyeveihemH341 →282 times

  • וְלִפְנֵ֣י׀and <to> before

    velifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י[those who] seek

    mevaksheiH1245 →225 times

  • נַפְשָׁ֗ם<of> life their

    nafshamH5315 →754 times

  • וְהֵבֵאתִ֨יand I will bring

    vehevetiH935 →2568 times

  • עֲלֵיהֶ֧ם׀on them

    ʾaleihemH5921 →5755 times

  • רָעָ֛הcalamity

    raahH7451 →662 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • חֲר֥וֹן[the] burning of

    charonH2740 →41 times

  • אַפִּ֖יanger my

    ʾapiH639 →276 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֤יand I will send

    veshilachtiH7971 →845 times

  • אַֽחֲרֵיהֶם֙after them

    ʾachareihemH310 →715 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַחֶ֔רֶבthe sword

    hacherevH2719 →413 times

  • עַ֥דuntil

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • כַּלּוֹתִ֖יhave made an end of I

    kalotiH3615 →208 times

  • אוֹתָֽם׃<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

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

    Jeremiah 9:16

    I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:33

      But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

    • Deuteronomy 28:64

      Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…

    • Ezekiel 5:12

      A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every…

    • Ezekiel 5:2

      When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword…

    • Jeremiah 44:27

      I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 50:36

    A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 49:22

      Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

    • Isaiah 44:25

      who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

    • Nahum 3:13

      Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

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 Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.