Jeremiah 49:17,Jeremiah 49:18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 49:7-22

The Edomites come next to receive their doom from God, by the mouth of Jeremiah: they also were old enemies to the Israel of God; but their day will come to be reckoned with, and it is now at hand, and is foretold, not only for warning to them, but for comfort to the Israel of God, whose afflictions were very much aggravated by their triumphs over them and joy in their calamity, Ps. 137:7. Many of the expressions used in this prophecy concerning Edom are borrowed from the prophecy of Obadiah,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 49:17

Also Edom shall be a desolation ,.... Not only Bozrah, its principal city, before spoken of, but the whole country of Idumea should be laid waste; its fortified cities destroyed; its riches plundered; and its inhabitants slain with the sword; or carried captive: everyone that goeth by it shall be astonished ; at the desolation made, so suddenly and so universally: and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof ; rejoice at them; clap their hands, and shake their heads, as the Targum; and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 49:17

Verse 17 Here again the Prophet confirms what he had said. We have before stated how necessary was such a repetition, because no one could have thought that destruction was so nigh the Idumeans. He did not then repeat what he had said, in order to explain more clearly what might have been otherwise obscure, but to fix more fully in the hearts of the faithful what appeared incredible. He then says that Edom would become a waste; and then, that every one passing by it would be astonished and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 49:14-18

Based at first on the older prophecy (see Obadiah 1:1-4 ); then follow two verses in Jeremiah's peculiar manner. As yet Edom feels himself secure in his rocky home. But a Divine impulse already stirs the nation, through whom Jehovah wills to humble the proud. Edom shall become a second Sodom. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 49:17

A desolation; rather, an astonishment. The word is from the same root as the following verb. The phrase is characteristic of Jeremiah, who has no scruple in repeating a forcible expression, and so enforcing an important truth (comp. Jeremiah 25:11 , Jeremiah 25:38 ; Jeremiah 1:1-19 :23; Jeremiah 51:43 ). What so "astonishing" as the reverses of once flourishing kingdoms! For the Bible knows nothing of the "necessity" of the decay and death of nations. The "covenant" which Jehovah... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:7-22

Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of Israel. Although expressly reserved from attack by Moses Deuteronomy 2:5, a long feud caused the Edomites to cherish so bitter an enmity against Judah, that they exulted with cruel joy over the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldaeans, and showed great cruelty toward those why fled to them for... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 49:17-19

Jeremiah 49:17-19. Edom shall be a desolation; every one shall hiss, &c. See note on Jeremiah 18:16. As in the overthrow of Sodom, &c. A proverbial expression, denoting an utter destruction. Behold, he shall come up like a lion, &c. This is a description of Nebuchadnezzar’s marching with his army against Idumea, whom the prophet compares to a lion coming out of his den near Jordan. When that river swells, in the time of harvest, the lions, that lie in the thickets on the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 49:7-22

A message concerning Edom (49:7-22)The Edomites, the descendants of Esau, prided themselves that they were cleverer than peoples of surrounding nations. They were confident that their country was safe against attack because its rugged mountains provided it with a good defence system. The prophet tells them that neither their wisdom nor their defences will save them from the destruction that God has determined for them (7-8).A vineyard worker picks the grapes that are ripe but leaves the rest; a... read more

E.W. Bullinger