Jeremiah 49:15

Bible in Basic English

For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
"For behold, I have made you small among the nations,Despised among men.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For lo, I wyll make thee but small among the heathen, and litle regarded among men.

Darby Translation
For behold, I have made thee small among the nations, despised among men.

New King James Version
"For indeed, I will make you small among nations, Despised among men.

Literal Translation
For, behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among men.

World English Bible
For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

King James Version (1611)
For lo, I wil make thee smal among the heathen, and despised among men.

King James Version
For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for lo: I will make the but small amonge the Heithen, and litle regarded amonge men.

THE MESSAGE
"Ah, Edom, I'm dropping you to last place among nations, the bottom of the heap, kicked around. You think you're so great— strutting across the stage of history, Living high in the impregnable rocks, acting like king of the mountain. You think you're above it all, don't you, like an eagle in its aerie? Well, you're headed for a fall. I'll bring you crashing to the ground." God 's Decree.

Amplified Bible
"For behold, [Edom] I have made you small among the nations And despised among men.

American Standard Version
For, behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men.

Revised Standard Version
For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among men.

Update Bible Version
For, look, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among man.

Webster's Bible Translation
For lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, [and] despised among men.

New Century Version
"Soon I will make you the smallest of nations, and you will be greatly hated by everyone.

New English Translation
The Lord says to Edom, "I will certainly make you small among nations. I will make you despised by all humankind.

Contemporary English Version
Your nation will be small, yet hated by other nations.

Complete Jewish Bible
Here! I will make you least among nations, the most despised of people.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For loe, I will make thee but small among the heathen, and despised among men.

George Lamsa Translation
For, lo, I will make you small among the nations and despised among men.

Hebrew Names Version
For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For, behold, I make thee small among the nations, and despised among men.

New Living Translation
The Lord says to Edom, "I will cut you down to size among the nations. You will be despised by all.

New Life Bible
For I have made you small among the nations, hated among men.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord;

English Revised Version
For, behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men.

Berean Standard Bible
"For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among men.

New Revised Standard
For I will make you least among the nations, despised by humankind.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For lo! Small, have I made thee among the nations, - Despised among men!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold I have made thee a little one among the nations, despicable among men.

Lexham English Bible
"For look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind.

Easy-to-Read Version
Edom, I will make you become unimportant. Everyone will hate you.

English Standard Version
For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind.

New American Standard Bible
"For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among people.

Good News Translation
The Lord is going to make you weak, and no one will respect you.

Christian Standard Bible®
Look, I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations, despised among humanity.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For lo! Y haue youe thee a litil oon among hethene men, despisable among men.

Young's Literal Translation
For, lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised among men.

Contextual Overview

⁷ About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone? ⁸ Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment. ⁹ If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough? ¹⁰ I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours. ¹¹ Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me. ¹² For the Lord has said, Those for whom the cup was not made ready will certainly be forced to take of it; and are you to go without punishment? you will not be without punishment, but will certainly be forced to take from the cup. ¹³ For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever. ¹⁴ Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight. ¹⁵ For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men. ¹⁶ ••• Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:7, 1 Samuel 2:8, 1 Samuel 2:30, Psalms 53:5, Obadiah 1:2, Micah 7:10, Luke 1:51

Reciprocal: Obadiah 1:1 - We

Cross-References

Joshua 14:15
In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

Judges 3:11
Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.

2 Samuel 7:1
Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;

Psalms 81:6
I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

Ezekiel 29:18
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.

Matthew 23:4
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, lo, I will make thee small among the Heathen,.... Or, "I have given thee", or "made thee" m; as if it respected what Edom was at first, a people few in number, and their country not large, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi, and after them Abarbinel: but it rather intends what Edom should be n; and which was the reason of gathering the Chaldeans against them, to reduce their number, weaken their strength, and destroy their substance, and so make them a small, feeble, and contemptible people; as follows:

[and] despised among men: for the fewness of their men, the desolation of their country, the consumption of their wealth and riches, their poverty and meanness; see Obadiah 1:2.

m נתתיך "posui", Munster; "reddidi", Piscator; "dedi", V. L. Cocceius, Schmidt. n Dabo, Pagninus, Montanus. So Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of Israel. Although expressly reserved from attack by Moses Deuteronomy 2:5, a long feud caused the Edomites to cherish so bitter an enmity against Judah, that they exulted with cruel joy over the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldaeans, and showed great cruelty toward those why fled to them for refuge.

Of the prophecies against Edom the first eight verses of Obadiah are also found in Jeremiah (see the marginal references). As Jeremiah wrote before the capture of Jerusalem, and Obadiah apparently after it (see Jeremiah 49:13-14), it might seem certain that Obadiah copied from Jeremiah. Others held the reverse view; while some consider that the two prophets may both have made common use of some ancient prediction. See the introduction to Obadiah.

The prophecy is divisible into three strophes. In the first Jeremiah 49:7-13, the prophet describes Edom as terror-stricken.

Jeremiah 49:7

Teman - A strip of land on the northeast of Edom, put here for Edom generally. Its inhabitants were among those “children of the East” famed for wisdom, because of their skill in proverbs and dark sayings.

Jeremiah 49:8

Dwell deep - Jeremiah 49:30. The Dedanites, who were used to travel through the Edomite territory with their caravans, are advised to retire as far as possible into the Arabian deserts to be out of the way of the invaders.

Jeremiah 49:9

Translate it: “If vintagers come to thee, they will not leave any gleaning: if thieves by night, they will destroy their fill.”

Jeremiah 49:10

But - For. The reason why the invaders destroy Edom so completely. His secret places are the hiding-places in the mountains of Seir.

His seed - Esau’s seed, the Edomites; his brethren are the nations joined with him in the possession of the land, Amalek, and perhaps the Simeonites; his neighbors are Dedan, Tema, Buz.

Jeremiah 49:11

As with Moab Jeremiah 48:47, and Ammon Jeremiah 49:6, so there is mercy for Edom. The widows shall be protected, and in the orphans of Edom the nation shall once again revive.

Jeremiah 49:12

Translate it: “Behold they whose rule was not to drink of the cup shall surely drink etc.” It was not the ordinary manner of God’s people to suffer from His wrath: but now when they are drinking of the wine-cup of fury Jeremiah 25:15, how can those not in covenant with Him hope to escape?

Jeremiah 49:14-18

The second strophe, Edom’s chastisement.

Jeremiah 49:14

Rumour - Or, “revelation.”

Ambassador - Or, messenger, i. e., herald. The business of an ambassador is to negotiate, of a herald to carry a message.

Jeremiah 49:15

Small ... - Rather, small among the nations, i. e., of no political importance.

Jeremiah 49:16

Edom’s “terribleness” consisted in her cities being hewn in the sides of inaccessible rocks, from where she could suddenly descend for predatory warfare, and retire to her fastnesses without fear of reprisals.

The clefts of the rock - Or, the fastnesses of Sela, the rock-city, Petra (see Isaiah 16:1).

The hill - i. e., Bozrah.

Jeremiah 49:17

Better, “And Edom shall become a terror: every passer by shalt be terrified, and shudder etc.”

Jeremiah 49:18

Neighbour ... - Admah and Zeboim.

A son of man - i. e., “Any man.” From 536 a.d. onward, Petra suddenly vanishes from the pages of history. Only in the present century was its real site discovered.

Jeremiah 49:19-22

Concluding strophe. The fall of Edom is compared to the state of a flock worried by an enemy strong as a lion Jeremiah 4:7, and swift as an eagle.

Jeremiah 49:19

The swelling of Jordan - Or, the pride of Jordan, the thickets on his banks (marginal reference note).

Against the habitation of the strong - Or, to the abiding pasturage. The lion stalks forth from the jungle to attack the fold, sure to find sheep there because of the perennial (evergreen) pasturage: “but I will suddenly make him (the flock, Edom) run away from her (or it, the pasturage).”

And who is a chosen ... - Better, and I will appoint over it, the abandoned land of Edom, him who is chosen, i. e., my chosen ruler Nebuchadnezzar.

Who will appoint me the time? - The plaintiff, in giving notice of a suit, had to mention the time when the defendant must appear (see the margin). Yahweh identifies himself with Nebuchadnezzar Jeremiah 25:9, and shows the hopelessness of Edom’s cause. For who is like Yahweh, His equal in power and might? Who will dare litigate with Him, and question His right? etc.

Jeremiah 49:20

Surely the least ... - Rather, Surely they will worry them, the feeble ones of the flock: surely their pasture shall be terror-stricken over them. No shepherd can resist Nebuchadnezzar Jeremiah 49:19, but all flee, and leave the sheep unprotected. Thereupon, the Chaldaeans enter, and treat the poor feeble flock so barbarously, that the very fold is horrified at their cruelty.

Jeremiah 49:21

Is moved - Quakes.

At the cry ... - The arrangement is much more poetical in the Hebrew, The shriek - to the sea of Suph (Exodus 10:19 note) is heard its sound.

Jeremiah 49:22

Nebuchadnezzar shall swoop down like an eagle, the emblem of swiftness.