Jeremiah 49:23
Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
Note Hebrew on the sea or by the sea
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Note fainthearted: Heb. melted
Note on…: or, as on the sea
Of Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet.
Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Damascus
- Genesis 14:15; Genesis 15:2; 1 Kings 11:24; Isaiah 17:1–3; Isaiah 37:13; Amos 1:3–5; Zechariah 9:1, 2; 2 Corinthians 11:32
- Hamath
- Numbers 13:21; 2 Samuel 8:9; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 19:13; Isaiah 10:9; Isaiah 11:11
- faint-hearted
- Heb. melted.
- Deuteronomy 20:8; Joshua 2:11; Joshua 14:8; 2 Samuel 17:10; Isaiah 13:7; Nahum 2:10
- sorrow
- Isaiah 57:20
- on the sea
- or, as on the sea.
- Psalm 107:26, 27; Luke 8:23, 24; Luke 21:25, 26; Acts 27:20