Jeremiah 49:7

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Jeremiah 49:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.

6 Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.

7 Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

8 Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.

9 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

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Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:21

Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

Genesis 25:30

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

Genesis 27:41

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 36:8

So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.

Numbers 20:14

From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

Numbers 20:15

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

Numbers 20:16

and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

Numbers 20:17

Please let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

Numbers 20:18

But Edom answered, “You may not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”

Numbers 20:19

“We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”

Numbers 20:20

But Edom insisted, “You may not pass through.” And they came out to confront the Israelites with a large army and a strong hand.

Numbers 20:21

So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.

Numbers 24:17

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.

Numbers 24:18

Edom will become a possession, as will Seir, his enemy; but Israel will perform with valor.

Deuteronomy 23:7

Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Psalms 83:4

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Psalms 83:5

For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—

Psalms 83:6

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

Psalms 83:7

of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.

Psalms 83:8

Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah

Psalms 83:9

Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

Psalms 83:10

who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

Psalms 137:7

Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

Isaiah 34:1

Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.

Isaiah 34:2

The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

Isaiah 34:3

Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

Isaiah 34:4

All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.

Isaiah 34:5

When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

Isaiah 34:6

The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 34:7

And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

Isaiah 34:8

For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Isaiah 34:10

It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

Isaiah 34:11

The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

Isaiah 34:12

No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.

Isaiah 34:13

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Isaiah 34:14

The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.

Isaiah 34:15

There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.

Isaiah 34:16

Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

Isaiah 34:17

He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.

Isaiah 63:1

Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

Isaiah 63:2

Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

Isaiah 63:3

“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

Isaiah 63:4

For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.

Isaiah 63:5

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

Isaiah 63:6

I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”

Ezekiel 25:12

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:14

I will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.’

Ezekiel 35:1

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 35:2

“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 35:3

and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

Ezekiel 35:4

I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:5

Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

Ezekiel 35:6

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

Ezekiel 35:7

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

Ezekiel 35:8

I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:10

Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

Ezekiel 35:11

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

Ezekiel 35:12

Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

Ezekiel 35:13

You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

Ezekiel 35:14

This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Ezekiel 35:15

As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Daniel 11:41

He will also invade the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall. But these will be delivered from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the leaders of the Ammonites.

Joel 3:19

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

Amos 1:11

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

Amos 1:12

So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”

Obadiah 1:1

This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom— We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—

Obadiah 1:2

“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

Obadiah 1:5

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— oh, how you will be ruined— would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

Obadiah 1:6

But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

Obadiah 1:7

All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.

Obadiah 1:8

In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

Obadiah 1:9

Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

Malachi 1:3

but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

Malachi 1:4

Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

Job 5:12

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

Job 5:13

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

Job 5:14

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Isaiah 19:11

The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

Isaiah 19:12

Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”

Romans 1:22

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.

Genesis 36:11

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

Genesis 36:15

These are the chiefs among the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

1 Chronicles 1:53

Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

Job 2:11

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

Job 4:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Habakkuk 3:3

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.