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 divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

And Abram said, O lord LORD, what will thou give me, since I go childless. And he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop when David killed them [of Zobah]. And they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

The burden of the word of LORD upon the land of Hadrach, and Damascus its resting-place (for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward LORD),

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes wanting to apprehend me.

Faint-hearted

And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.

and the swine, because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you. Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

And even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt, for all Israel knows that thy father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

Therefore all hands shall be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt.

She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

Sorrow

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

On the sea

They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

but as they sailed he began to asleep. And a storm of wind came down on the lake, and they were filling up, and were in peril.

And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, roaring of sea and of tossing,

And when neither sun nor stars appeared for more days, and no small storm laying on, all remaining hope for us to be saved was taken away.