Jeremiah 49:23

World English Bible (2000)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 18:34 : 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
  • Isa 10:9 : 9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?"
  • Gen 14:15 : 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
  • Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
  • Gen 15:2 : 2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
  • Num 13:21 : 21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
  • 2 Kgs 19:13 : 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?"'"
  • 2 Chr 16:2 : 2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
  • Ps 107:26-27 : 26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. 27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  • Isa 13:7 : 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will melt.
  • Isa 17:1-3 : 1 The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Isa 37:13 : 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'"
  • Deut 20:8 : 8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart."
  • Josh 2:11 : 11 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
  • Josh 14:8 : 8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
  • 2 Sam 8:9 : 9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,
  • 2 Sam 17:10 : 10 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
  • 1 Kgs 11:24 : 24 He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus.
  • 2 Kgs 17:24 : 24 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.
  • Zech 9:1-2 : 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh; 2 and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
  • Luke 8:23-24 : 23 But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water. 24 They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; 26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 27:20 : 20 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
  • 2 Cor 11:32 : 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.
  • Amos 1:3-5 : 3 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; 4 but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. 5 I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir," says Yahweh.
  • Amos 6:2 : 2 Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 49:24-27
    4 verses
    85%

    24 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

    25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

    26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies.

    27 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.

  • Isa 17:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

    2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

    3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Zech 9:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;

    2 and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

  • Isa 23:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins."

    5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

  • Jer 49:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.

    22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

  • Isa 23:1
    71%

    1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

  • Jer 6:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

    24 We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • Isa 23:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

    11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.

    12 He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest."

  • Ezek 26:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

    18 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.

  • Ezek 47:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

    17 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

  • Amos 1:5
    69%

    5 I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir," says Yahweh.

  • Exod 15:15
    69%

    15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

  • Jer 50:43
    69%

    43 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • Jer 30:5
    69%

    5 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

  • Ezek 21:7
    69%

    7 It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Isa 23:14
    69%

    14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

  • Amos 1:3
    69%

    3 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

  • Jer 48:20
    68%

    20 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

  • Ps 48:6
    68%

    6 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

  • Jer 49:17
    68%

    17 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.

  • Isa 21:1
    68%

    1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

  • Isa 33:23
    68%

    23 Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey.

  • Jer 49:14
    68%

    14 I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

  • Ezek 27:35
    68%

    35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.

  • Jer 51:32
    68%

    32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

  • Isa 10:9
    68%

    9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?"

  • Ezek 30:9
    68%

    9 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.

  • Jer 48:39
    67%

    39 How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.

  • Jer 48:34
    67%

    34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.

  • Jer 48:41
    67%

    41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

  • Jer 50:23
    67%

    23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

  • Jer 50:46
    67%

    46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.

  • Ezek 27:30
    67%

    30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Ezek 27:18
    67%

    18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

  • Hab 3:16
    67%

    16 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

  • Isa 18:2
    67%

    2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"

  • Jer 48:3
    67%

    3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!