Jeremiah 49:20
Therefore hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
Note Or their pasture will be appalled at their fate
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.
Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he has taken against Edom, and his purposes that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the counsel
- Jeremiah 50:45; Psalm 33:11; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 14:24–27; Isaiah 46:10, 11; Acts 4:28; Ephesians 1:11
- Teman
- Jeremiah 49:7; Job 6:19, 20
- Surely
- The prophet having given the name of the shepherd to the generals of the army, pursues the same metaphor, calling the common soldiers, "the least of the flock;" who shall have strength and courage enough to the defeat the Idumean forces.
- Jeremiah 37:10; Jeremiah 50:45; Zechariah 4:6; 1 Corinthians 1:27–29
- make
- Jeremiah 49:13, 17, 18; Malachi 1:3, 4