Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:7-22
The Edomites come next to receive their doom from God, by the mouth of Jeremiah: they also were old enemies to the Israel of God; but their day will come to be reckoned with, and it is now at hand, and is foretold, not only for warning to them, but for comfort to the Israel of God, whose afflictions were very much aggravated by their triumphs over them and joy in their calamity, Psa 137:7. Many of the expressions used in this prophecy concerning Edom are borrowed from the prophecy of Obadiah, which is concerning Edom; for, all the prophets being inspired by one and the same Spirit, there must needs be a wonderful harmony and agreement in their predictions. Now here it is foretold,
I. That th…
Read the whole note in the consoleJamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 49:15
David and Joab had already humbled Edom (Sa2 8:14).
John Gill on Jeremiah 49:15
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) "posui", Mu…
Read the whole note in the consoleJohn Calvin on Jeremiah 49:15
Jeremiah 49:15
15. For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
15. Quia ecce parvum posui to inter gentes, contemptum inter homines.
Interpreters for the most part give this exposition, that the people of Edom would be contemptible, because God had determined to cast them down from their dignity, which they for a time possessed: and then they connect the next verse, in which the reason for this is given, "Thy terror deceived thee, the pride of thy heart," etc. But this passage may be taken otherwise, -- that God derides the pride of that nation, which ought to have restrained itself, because it contended against nature, when it wished to elate itself so much…
