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Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

KJV

Ad Damascum. Confusa est Emath et Arphad, quia auditum pessimum audierunt : turbati sunt in mari ; præ sollicitudine quiescere non potuit.

Vulgate

Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

ASV

לְ/דַמֶּ֗שֶׂק בּ֤וֹשָֽׁה חֲמָת֙ וְ/אַרְפָּ֔ד כִּי שְׁמֻעָ֥ה רָעָ֛ה שָׁמְע֖וּ נָמֹ֑גוּ בַּ/יָּ֣ם דְּאָגָ֔ה הַשְׁקֵ֖ט לֹ֥א יוּכָֽל

Hebrew

Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַרְפָּ֔ד
'rpd
proper_noun · 6×
דְאָגָ֑ה
d'gh
noun · 6×
דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק
dmshq
proper_noun · 45×
ה
h
noun · 393×
חֲמָ֑ת
chmt
proper_noun · 35×
יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ
ybshv
verb · 112×
יוּכַ֣ל
yvkl
verb · 193×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נָמ֖וֹג
nmvg
verb · 17×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×
שְׁמוּעָ֖ה
shmv'h
noun · 27×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×
תִּשְׁקֹ֥ט
tshqt
verb · 41×

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 18:34 — Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
  • 2Kgs 19:13 — Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
  • Amos 1:3 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
  • Gen 14:15 — And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
  • Gen 15:2 — And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
  • Isa 10:9 — Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
  • Isa 17:1 — The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
  • Isa 36:19 — Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
  • Isa 57:20 — But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
  • Nah 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
  • Num 13:21 — So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
  • Zech 9:1 — The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
  • Zech 9:2 — And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.