Jeremiah 49:37

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

³⁴This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. ³⁵This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Behold, I will shatter Elam's bow, the mainstay of their might. ³⁶I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam's exiles will not go. ³⁷So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger, declares the LORD. I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.³⁸I will set My throne in Elam, and destroy its king and officials, declares the LORD. ³⁹Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity," declares the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to be: Jeremiah 49:5, Jeremiah 49:22, Jeremiah 49:24, Jeremiah 49:29, Jeremiah 48:39, Jeremiah 50:36, Psalms 48:4-6, Ezekiel 32:23, *marg.

their enemies: Jeremiah 34:20, Jeremiah 34:21

I will send the sword: Jeremiah 9:16, Jeremiah 48:2, Leviticus 26:33, Ezekiel 5:2, Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 12:14

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,.... Frightened; thrown into the utmost consternation, so that they shall have no heart nor spirit to go out against them, and meet them, and defend themselves; but make all haste imaginable to flee from them, such a panic would seize them:

and before them that seek their life; a further description of their enemies; they being such, who, not content with their substance, sought to take away their lives; nothing less would satisfy them, being: cruel and blood thirsty ones:

and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the Lord; and a greater evil than that cannot be; signifying that the destruction that should be made among them would be the effect of the wrath of God upon them for their sins:

and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them; that is, those that slay with the sword, as the Targum; these should go after those that fled, and destroy them, till the greater part of them were consumed; for all of them that were taken were not destroyed; or otherwise there would have been none to return from captivity, as is promised at the close of this prophecy.