Jeremiah 49:33

Translations

Modern

“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”

Traditional

And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Literal

“Hazor will become as an abode for jackals, a desolation even to forever; no man will dwell there, and no a son of man will sojourn in it.”

Latin

Et erit Asor in habitaculum draconum, deserta usque in æternum: non manebit ibi vir, nec incolet eam filius hominis.

Original

Hebrew

English

“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”

Notes

Jeremiah 49:28–33

The nomads of Kedar moved freely in the upper Arabian Desert, east of Palestine. They were a warlike people (Psalm 120:5–7; Isaiah 21:13–16) who raised animals for profitable trade with Tyre (Ezekiel 27:21).
Hazor was a region east of Damascus where nomads lived.
The poem encourages King Nebuchadnezzar to attack and describes the battles' effects.

Theme notes and profiles

Nebuchadnezzar II Messages Against the Nations The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 10:22
Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
Jeremiah 9:11
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Zephaniah 2:13–15
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
Malachi 1:3
…but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
Isaiah 13:20–22
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
Isaiah 34:9–17
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
Revelation 18:2
And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
Revelation 18:21–22
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.
Isaiah 14:23
“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 50:39–40
So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.

Places

Hazor: Region in Arabia, possibly Ituraea, threatened by Nebuchadnezzar

Glossary

Arabia, Arabs Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah Hazor Jackal Nations

Topics

Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Conquests By Nebuchadnezzar: Prophecies Concerning

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