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Jeremiah 49

Jer. 49:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Concerning Edom
'Edom (Hebrew #123)
from 122; red (see Gen. 25:25); Edom, the elder twin-brother of Jacob; hence the region (Idumaea) occupied by him
KJV usage: Edom, Edomites, Idumea.
Pronounce: ed-ome'
Origin: or (fully) oEdowm {ed-ome'}
b, thus saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
; Is wisdom
chokmah (Hebrew #2451)
wisdom (in a good sense)
KJV usage: skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
Pronounce: khok-maw'
Origin: from 2449
c no more in Teman
Teyman (Hebrew #8487)
the same as 8486; Teman, the name of two Edomites, and of the region and descendant of one of them
KJV usage: south, Teman.
Pronounce: tay-mawn'
Origin: or Teman {tay-mawn'}
? is counsel
`etsah (Hebrew #6098)
advice; by implication, plan; also prudence
KJV usage: advice, advisement, counsel(l-(or)), purpose.
Pronounce: ay-tsaw'
Origin: from 3289
d perished
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
from the prudent
biyn (Hebrew #995)
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
Pronounce: bene
Origin: a primitive root
? is their wisdom
chokmah (Hebrew #2451)
wisdom (in a good sense)
KJV usage: skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
Pronounce: khok-maw'
Origin: from 2449
vanished
carach (Hebrew #5628)
to extend (even to excess)
KJV usage: exceeding, hand, spread, stretch self, banish.
Pronounce: saw-rakh'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ezek. 25:12• 12Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; (Ezek. 25:12)
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Amos 1:11‑12• 11Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:
 12but I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. (Amos 1:11‑12)
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Obad. 8• 8Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? (Obad. 8)
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Job 5:12‑13• 12He breaketh to pieces the devices of the crafty,{HR}So that they can do nothing to purpose;
 13He taketh the wise in their craftiness,{HR}And the counsel of the cunning is overturned. (Job 5:12‑13)

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Lord of Hosts,
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Edom.
Jer. 25:9,21• 9I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
 21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, (Jer. 25:9,21)
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Gen. 25:30• 30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, pray, with the red—the red thing there, for I [am] faint. Therefore they called his name Edom. (Gen. 25:30)
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Gen. 27:41• 41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand, and I will slay my brother Jacob. (Gen. 27:41)
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Gen. 36:8• 8Thus Esau dwelt in mount Seir; Esau is Edom. (Gen. 36:8)
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Num. 20:14‑21• 14And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the trouble that hath befallen us,
 15how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians evil entreated us and our fathers;
 16and when we cried to Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt; and behold, we are at Kadesh, a city at the extremity of thy border.
 17Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country; we will not pass through fields, or through vineyards, neither will we drink water out of the wells: we will go by the king's road; we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.
 18But Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
 19And the children of Israel said to him, We will go by the high way; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then I will pay for it: I will only, without anything else, go through on my feet.
 20And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
 21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; and Israel turned away from him. (Num. 20:14‑21)
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Num. 24:17‑18• 17I shall see him, but not now:{HR}I shall behold him, but not nigh.{HR}There shall come a Star out of Jacob,{HR}And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel,{HR}And shall smite the corners of Moab,{HR}And destroy all the children of Sheth.
 18And Edom shall be a possession,{HR}Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies;{HR}And Israel shall do valiantly. (Num. 24:17‑18)
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Deut. 23:7• 7Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. (Deut. 23:7)
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Psa. 83:4‑10• 4They said, Come, and we will cut them off from [being] a nation,{HR}And let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
 5For they have heartily consulted together;{HR}Against thee do they make a covenant:
 6The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites,{HR}Moab and the Hagarenes;
 7Gebal and Ammon and Amalek;{HR}Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
 8Asshur also is joined with them;{HR}They are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
 9Do to them as [to] Midian, as [to] Sisera,{HR}As [to] Jabin, at the river Kishon.
 10They were destroyed at Endor;{HR}They became dung for the ground. (Psa. 83:4‑10)
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Psa. 137:7• 7Remember, Jehovah, to Edom's sons the day of Jerusalem,{HR}Who said, Rase, rase, down to its foundation. (Psa. 137:7)
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Isa. 34:1‑17• 1Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that cometh forth of it.
 2For the indignation of Jehovah [is] upon all the nations, and fury against all their armies; he hath devoted them to destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
 3Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
 4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered [fruit] from the fig-tree.
 5For my sword shall be bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment.
 6The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
 7And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
 8For [it is] the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
 9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
 10It shall not be quenched night and day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
 11But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein. And he shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
 12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there; and all her princes shall be nothing.
 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
 14And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
 15There shall the arrow snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
 16Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his spirit, it hath gathered them.
 17And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. (Isa. 34:1‑17)
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Isa. 63:1‑6• 1Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red garments from Bozrah, this [that is] glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
 2Wherefore [art thou] red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat?
 3I have trodden the wine-press alone: and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
 4For the day of vengeance [is] in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
 5And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: and mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
 6And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and I have brought down their strength to the earth. (Isa. 63:1‑6)
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Ezek. 25:12‑14• 12Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
 13therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
 14And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 25:12‑14)
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Ezek. 35:1‑15• 1And the word of Jehovah came unto me saying,
 2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say unto it,
 3Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, Ο mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
 4I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
 5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end;
 6therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
 7Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
 8And I will fill his mountain with his slain men: in thy hills and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
 9I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
 10Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:
 11therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
 12And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
 13Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
 14Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
 15As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, Ο mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 35:1‑15)
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Dan. 11:41• 41He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown, but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. (Dan. 11:41)
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Joel 3:19• 19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. (Joel 3:19)
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Amos 1:11‑12• 11Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:
 12but I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. (Amos 1:11‑12)
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Obad. 1‑9• 1The vision of Obadiah.
 2Behold, I have made them small among the heathen; thou art greatly despised.
 3The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; —he that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
 4Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.
 5If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
 6How are the things of Esau searched out! How are his hidden things sought up!
 7All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border; the men of this place have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee. They that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee; there is no understanding in him.
 8Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
 9And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. (Obad. 1‑9)
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Mal. 1:3‑4• 3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
 4Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation forever. (Mal. 1:3‑4)
Is wisdom.
Jer. 18:18• 18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. (Jer. 18:18)
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Job 5:12‑14• 12He breaketh to pieces the devices of the crafty,{HR}So that they can do nothing to purpose;
 13He taketh the wise in their craftiness,{HR}And the counsel of the cunning is overturned.
 14By day they run against darkness,{HR}And as in the night they grope at noon-day. (Job 5:12‑14)
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Isa. 19:11‑13• 11The princes of Zoan [are] utterly fools; the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
 12Where [are] they then, thy wise [men]? let them tell thee now; and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
 13The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the princes of Noph are deceived; and the corner-stones of its tribes have caused Egypt to err. (Isa. 19:11‑13)
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Isa. 29:14• 14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvelously among this people, to do marvelously even with wonder; and the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent ones shall be hid. (Isa. 29:14)
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Obad. 8• 8Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? (Obad. 8)
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Rom. 1:22‑23• 22Professing to be wise, they became fools,
 23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of winged and four-footed and creeping [creatures]. (Rom. 1:22‑23)
Teman.
Jer. 49:20• 20therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, 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. (Jer. 49:20)
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Gen. 36:11,15• 11And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
 15These are the dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, (Gen. 36:11,15)
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1 Chron. 1:53• 53chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, (1 Chron. 1:53)
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Job 2:11• 11Now three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him, and they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. (Job 2:11)
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Job 4:1• 1And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, (Job 4:1)
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Ezek. 25:13• 13therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. (Ezek. 25:13)
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Amos 1:12• 12but I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. (Amos 1:12)
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Obad. 9• 9And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. (Obad. 9)
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Hab. 3:3• 3God came from Teman, (Hab. 3:3)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Concerning Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom spent?

W. Kelly Translation

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Concerning Edom, thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?