"Take their tents and their flocks, their curtains and all their goods; carry off their camels for yourselves, and a cry shall go up: 'Terror is all around!' (vs. 29)
That word came to Jeremiah concerning Kedar and Hazor, but these kingdoms find good company in Jeremiah 49 as four other nations also come in for a terror warning. Judah's neighbors, who have plagued her for so long, will now each get their comeuppance.
The Ammonites are mentioned first. This perpetual trouble of Israel is going to be severely punished with the same kind of dread that has fallen upon Jerusalem: "I am going to bring terror upon you, says the Lord God of hosts, from all your neighbors, and you will be scattered, each headlong, with no one to gather the fugitives" (vs. 5).
Next to come in for a prophetic scourging are the Edomites. While often agents of terror themselves, now terror will be visited upon them. Jeremiah warns them, "The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Although you make your nest as high as the eagle's, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord" (vs. 16).
Also included are Kedar and Hazor, as well as Damascus and Elam. There is no respite from the terror coming from the Babylonian army - they will seize and destroy all. It's not just Jerusalem that is suffering. There is enough terror to go around.
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