Jeremiah 49:21

Bible in Basic English

The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
At the noyse of their fall the earth shall quake, the crye of their voyce shalbe hearde vnto the red sea.

Darby Translation
The earth quaketh at the sound of their fall; there is a cry, the sound whereof is heard in the Red sea.

New King James Version
The earth shakes at the noise of their fall; At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.

Literal Translation
The earth is shaken at the noise of their fall. When they cried, the noise of it was heard in the Sea of Reeds.

World English Bible
The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

King James Version (1611)
The earth is moued at the noise of their fall: at the crie, the noise thereof was heard in the red Sea.

King James Version
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
At the noyse of their fall ye earth shal quake, the crie of their voyce shalbe herde vnto the reed see.

Amplified Bible
The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The sound of its noise has been heard at the Red Sea.

American Standard Version
The earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

Revised Standard Version
At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.

Update Bible Version
The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

Webster's Bible Translation
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise of it was heard in the Red sea.

New Century Version
At the sound of Edom's fall, the earth will shake. Their cry will be heard all the way to the Red Sea.

New English Translation
The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall. Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba.

Contemporary English Version
The sounds of your destruction will reach the Red Sea and cause the earth to shake.

Complete Jewish Bible
The earth quakes at the sound of their fall; their cry can be heard at the Sea of Suf.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The earth is mooued at the noyse of their fall: the crie of their voice is heard in the red Sea.

George Lamsa Translation
The earth is moved at the sound of their fall, and the noise of their wailing is heard from the Red sea.

Hebrew Names Version
The eretz trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Sea of Suf.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The earth quaketh at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

New Living Translation
The earth will shake with the noise of Edom's fall, and its cry of despair will be heard all the way to the Red Sea.

New Life Bible
The earth will shake at the sound of their fall. The sound of their cry will be heard at the Red Sea.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, with which he sent me to you.

English Revised Version
The earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

Berean Standard Bible
At the sound of their fall, the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

New Revised Standard
At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
At the noise of their fail, hath trembled the earth, At the outcry, in the Red Sea, was heard its noise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of their voice is heard in the Red Sea.

Lexham English Bible
The earth will quake from the sound of their falling. A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at the Red Sea.

Easy-to-Read Version
At the sound of Edom's fall, the earth will shake. Their cry will be heard all the way to the Red Sea.

English Standard Version
At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.

New American Standard Bible
The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea.

Good News Translation
When Edom falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake, and the cries of alarm will be heard as far away as the Gulf of Aqaba.

Christian Standard Bible®
At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The erthe was mouyd of the vois of fallyng of hem; the cry of vois therof was herd in the reed see.

Young's Literal Translation
From the noise of their fall hath the earth shaken, The cry -- at the sea of Suph is its voice heard.

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

earth: Jeremiah 50:46, Isaiah 14:4-15, Ezekiel 26:15-18, Ezekiel 21:16, Ezekiel 32:10, Revelation 18:10

Red sea: Heb. Weedy sea

Reciprocal: Psalms 99:1 - earth Jeremiah 46:12 - thy cry Ezekiel 30:9 - great

Cross-References

Genesis 30:8
And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali.

Genesis 46:24
And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

Genesis 49:15
And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

Genesis 49:16
Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Genesis 49:32
In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.

Genesis 49:33
And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

Deuteronomy 33:23
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, made glad with grace and full of the blessing of the Lord: the sea and its fishes will be his.

Judges 4:6
And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

Judges 4:10
Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.

Judges 5:18
It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The earth is moved at the noise of their fall,.... Of the Edomites; whose fall was from the height of greatness and glory to a very low condition indeed; and as things, the higher they are from whence they fall, the greater noise they make, so it was with the Edomites; perhaps there may be some allusion to the falling of rocks and hills, with which Edom, abounded: this may respect either the noise and shout of the conquerors, when they fell; or the cry of the Edomites, when taken and destroyed; or the report of their destruction, when it came into the world; which struck the inhabitants of the whole earth with terror and amazement, so that they trembled at it; an hyperbolical expression, as Kimchi observes:

at the cry, the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea, or, "sea of Suph", or "weeds"; where weeds and rushes grew in great abundance, from whence it had its name. This is the Arabian gulf, which washed the shores of Edom, and was called the Red sea from thence, Edom signifying red. The meaning is, that the cry of the slain, or of the conquerors at the slaughter of them, should be heard to the borders of the land, to the sea shore, and by those in ships there; who should carry the report of it to each of the parts of the world.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 49:21. The earth is moved — The whole state is represented here as a vast building suddenly thrown down, so as to cause the earth to tremble, and the noise to be heard at a great distance.