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Jeremiah
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Of the children of Ammon. The LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities? See also: Zephaniah 2:8-11Deuteronomy 23:3Amos 1:13-15Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and it will become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burned with fire; then Israel will possess those who possessed him,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 4:19Ezekiel 21:20Deuteronomy 3:11“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourself in sackcloth. Lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together. See also: Jeremiah 48:7Jeremiah 48:37Isaiah 15:2Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’ See also: 1 Timothy 6:17Jeremiah 21:13Jeremiah 9:23Behold, I will bring a terror on you,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies, “from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives. See also: Jeremiah 46:5Jeremiah 49:29Amos 4:3“But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 49:39Jeremiah 48:47Jeremiah 46:26Of Edom, the LORD of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? See also: Amos 1:11-12Jeremiah 25:21Genesis 36:15Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him. See also: Jeremiah 25:23Jeremiah 46:21Isaiah 21:13If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves came by night, wouldn’t they steal until they had enough? See also: Obadiah 1:5-6Isaiah 17:6But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more. See also: Isaiah 17:14Malachi 1:3-4Psalms 37:35-36Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.” See also: Psalms 68:5Hosea 14:3James 1:27For the LORD says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink. See also: Jeremiah 25:28-29Obadiah 1:16Jeremiah 46:27For I have sworn by myself,” says the LORD, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.” See also: Isaiah 34:6Genesis 22:16Genesis 36:33I have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Gather yourselves together! Come against her! Rise up to the battle!” See also: Isaiah 30:4Isaiah 37:7Isaiah 13:2-3“For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men. See also: Obadiah 1:21 Samuel 2:30Psalms 53:5As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD. See also: Amos 9:2Job 39:27Isaiah 49:25“Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues. See also: Ezekiel 35:7Jeremiah 50:13Jeremiah 49:13As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says the LORD, “no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein. See also: Jeremiah 49:33Deuteronomy 29:23Zephaniah 2:9“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?” See also: Jeremiah 12:5Jeremiah 30:21Jeremiah 50:44-46Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom, and his purposes that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them. See also: Jeremiah 50:45Malachi 1:3-4Jeremiah 49:7The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea. See also: Jeremiah 50:46Ezekiel 26:15-18Ezekiel 32:10Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. See also: Jeremiah 48:40-41Hosea 8:1Isaiah 13:8Of Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet. See also: Isaiah 10:92 Kings 18:34Genesis 15:2Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? See also: Jeremiah 33:9Jeremiah 51:41Revelation 18:10Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Jeremiah 50:30Jeremiah 11:22Amos 4:10“I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.” See also: 1 Kings 15:18-20Amos 1:3-51 Kings 20:1-22Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, The LORD says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. See also: Genesis 25:13Isaiah 11:14Judges 6:3They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’ See also: Jeremiah 46:5Jeremiah 6:25Psalms 120:5Flee! Wander far off! Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor,” says the LORD; “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. See also: Isaiah 10:7Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 27:6Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care,” says the LORD; “that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone. See also: Ezekiel 38:11Deuteronomy 33:28Numbers 23:9Their camels will be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a plunder. I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 9:26Jeremiah 25:23Jeremiah 49:36Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.” See also: Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 51:37Jeremiah 10:22The LORD’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, See also: Jeremiah 25:25Daniel 8:2Genesis 10:22“The LORD of Armies says: ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. See also: Isaiah 22:6Jeremiah 51:56Psalms 46:9I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds. There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come. See also: Jeremiah 49:32Revelation 7:1Jeremiah 30:17I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life. I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them. See also: Jeremiah 9:16Jeremiah 48:2Jeremiah 34:20-21I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says the LORD. See also: Daniel 7:9-14Jeremiah 43:10‘But it will happen in the latter days that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says the LORD.” See also: Jeremiah 48:47Jeremiah 49:6Amos 9:14
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 49:1
Ver. 1. Melchom, the idol of the Ammonites. Ch. --- Gad, to whom a part of their country was assigned. After the captivity this tribe, the Ammonites seized the country, regardless of God's appointment. They joined the Chaldees afterwards; but the latter could not depend upon them, and sent them into captivity, to revenge the death of Godolias. C. xli. 2. Soph. ii. 8. Ezec. xxv.
3. C. --- They had taken the country as their right, as if all Israel had perished; which God resents. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 49:2
Ver. 2. Rabbath; called Amana, Astarte, and Philadelphia, by Stephanus. ---
Possess; returning first from captivity, and subduing the cities of Ammon, under Hyrcan. 1 Mac. v. 6.
↑ 2Jeremiah 49:3
Ver. 3. Hai, or Je-abarim. Both these cities pertained also to Moab. --- Hedges.
Heb. Gederoth, may be the city Gadara. --- Melchom, or Moloc, who claimed dominion over this people. If they had used their reason, they must have seen that he was no god, since the Lord disposed of him as he pleased so long before.
↑ 3Jeremiah 49:4
Ver. 4. Delicate. Heb. "rebel or dissolute." Sept. "impudent."
↑ 4Jeremiah 49:7
Ver. 7. Edom. This nation was involved in the common ruin, for its barbarity towards God's people. Abd. x. Ps. cxxxvi. 7. Ezec. xxv. 12. --- Theman, renowned formerly for wisdom. Job ii. 11. Yet at the approach of danger, all were confounded. C. --- They were only worldly wise.
W.
↑ 7Jeremiah 49:8
Ver. 8. Hole. The territory of Edom, from Eleutheropolis to Elath, is full of such.
S. Jer. in Abd.
--- Dedan lies south of the Dead Sea. C.
↑ 8Jeremiah 49:10
Ver. 10. Secrets, or lurking holes. v. 8. H. --- God permits the Chaldees to plunder all. ---
Brethren; Israelites. --- Neighbours; Moab, &c.
↑ 10Jeremiah 49:12
Ver. 12. Was not so much. There were some faithful Jews. C. xxv. 28. C.
↑ 12Jeremiah 49:13
Ver. 13. Bosra, different from that of Ammon; (C. xlviii. 24. Cellar. iii. 14.) though this may be doubtful. Could such a city be unknown?
↑ 13Jeremiah 49:14
Ver. 14. Ambassador; Jeremias: or rather this is a personification of the passions, which would sufficiently prompt the Chaldees. C. --- A good angel might urge them to execute the divine decrees. Theodoret. --- The greatest armies are thus made use of by Providence, without approving of their malicious designs.
↑ 14Jeremiah 49:15
Ver. 15. Little. Edom was scarcely known, except in sacred history; and it was forced to receive circumcision by the Machabees.
↑ 15Jeremiah 49:16
Ver. 16. Hill. The mountains were numerous, and full of caverns. v. 8.
↑ 16Jeremiah 49:17
Ver. 17. Desolate. The few who survived left their ancient territories, which are now a desert, like most of Stony Arabia. C. --- Hiss, out of contempt. The punishment was so great as to excite surprise. W.
↑ 17Jeremiah 49:19
Ver. 19. Swelling. Lit. "pride;" (H.) or those banks which the Jordan reaches, when it overflows.
They are lined with woods, from which lions rush to devour the sheep. C. ---
Strong "one's dwelling." Heb. H. Zac. xi. 3. --- Over her. What sort of men come to the attack? or, who shall dare resist them? C.
↑ 19Jeremiah 49:20
Ver. 20. Little. Chal. "chiefs of the people." Tsair (H.) is supposed to have this sense. Mic. v. 2.
C. --- But the weakest of the Chaldees will be an overmatch for Edom. H.
↑ 20Jeremiah 49:23
Ver. 23. Damascus, the capital of Syria. Is. vii. 8. W. --- It was punished at the same time as the rest. Jos. --- Arphad; Arad, an island near Tyre, or Raphanæ.
Theod. --- Syr. "Rephad...they are troubled from the sea." Nabuchodonosor left Tyre to invade them. C. --- As in. The islands of the Mediterranean tremble for themselves, and all Syria is afraid, hearing of the fall of so many cities and nations.
↑ 23Jeremiah 49:25
Ver. 25. They. Heb. Sept. and Chal. add, "not." Why have they not spared this beautiful city? or, why have not its citizens given it up, to prevent its entire demolition?
↑ 25Jeremiah 49:27
Ver. 27. Benadad. So the kings were usually styled. 3 K. xv. 8. Sept. "the son of Ader."
↑ 27Jeremiah 49:28
Ver. 28. Cedar and Asor were parts of Arabia; which, with Moab, Ammon, Edom, &c. were all brought under the yoke of Nabuchodonosor. Ch. --- We know nothing of the situation of Asor, which means "a court." C. --- It might be the flying camp (Theod.) of the Saracens, (S. Jer. in Is.
xxi. 16.) who dwelt under tents like the hordes of Tartars, the Ethiopian emperor, and the mogul.
Yet this seems to have been a fixed habitation. v. 30. 33. --- East; the Desert Arabia. v. 32. C. ---
Cedar was the son of Ismael, and Asor the chief city of the Agarens. W.
↑ 28Jeremiah 49:29
Ver. 29. About. The enemy shall terrify them, and plunder all their riches.
↑ 29Jeremiah 49:31
Ver. 31. Alone. We need not fear any resistance. They have no allies. C. --- The ancient Suevi, of Germany, laid waste the surrounding countries, that they might appear more terrible. Cesar iv.
and vi.
↑ 31Jeremiah 49:32
Ver. 32. Wind; throughout the world. --- Round. C. ix. 26. C. --- This the Arabs did, in imitation of Bacchus. Herod. iii. 8.
↑ 32Jeremiah 49:34
Ver. 34. Elam. A part of Persia. Ch. --- The Elamites had besieged Jerusalem, under Manasses, (C.) and are therefore punished. W. --- They were subject to Aseradon: Nabuchodonosor subdued them after the other nations. v. 36. Cyrus set his countrymen at liberty, (C.) and thus began his conquests. H. --- Pagan historians assert, at random, that they were before subject to the Medes.
↑ 34Jeremiah 49:38
Ver. 38. Thence. Daniel (viii. 2.) governed at Susa, the capital of Elam, for Baltassar.
↑ 38Jeremiah 49:39
Ver. 39. Return. They joined the standards of Cyrus, and became masters of the East. C. --- This and similar texts are understood of the conversion of the Gentiles. Acts ii. 7. W.
↑ 39License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses