Jeremiah 49:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Damascus

Faint-hearted

Nahum 2:10

Sorrow

Isaiah 57:20

On the sea

Bible References

Damascus

And he and his servants deployed against them by night, attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.

But Abram said, “Lord God, what can You give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

and gathered men to himself. He became captain of a raiding party when David killed the Zobaites. He went to Damascus, lived there, and became king in Damascus.

An oracle against Damascus:

Look, Damascus is no longer a city.
It has become a ruined heap.

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’”

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Damascus
for three crimes, even four,
because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges.

An Oracle

The word of the Lord
is against the land of Hadrach,
and Damascus is its resting place—
for the eyes of men
and all the tribes of Israel
are on the Lord

—

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me,

Faint-hearted

The officers will continue to address the army and say, ‘Is there any man who is afraid or cowardly? Let him leave and return home, so that his brothers’ hearts won’t melt like his own.’

and the pig, though it has hooves, it does not chew the cud—
it is unclean for you.

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

Then, even a brave man with the heart of a lion will melt because all Israel knows that your father and the valiant men with him are warriors.

Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak,
and every man’s heart will melt.

Desolation, decimation, devastation!
Hearts melt,
knees tremble,
loins shake,
every face grows pale!

Sorrow

But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea,
for it cannot be still,
and its waters churn up mire and muck.

On the sea

Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths,
their courage melting away in anguish,

and as they were sailing He fell asleep. Then a fierce windstorm came down on the lake; they were being swamped and were in danger.

“Then there will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring sea and waves.

For many days neither sun nor stars appeared, and the severe storm kept raging. Finally all hope that we would be saved was disappearing.