Jeremiah 49:23

WEB

²³Of Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet.

KJV

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.

BSB

²³Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea;^[+] their anxiety cannot be calmed.

FBV

²³A prophecy about Damascus: The towns of Hamath and Arpad^[+] are disturbed, because they've received bad news. They are fearful, restless like the sea. Nothing can calm their worries.

Extra References

Isaiah 10:9

⁹Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

2 Kings 18:34

³⁴Where 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?

Genesis 15:2

²Abram said, “Lord^[+] GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Genesis 14:15

¹⁵He 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.

Isaiah 57:20

²⁰But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

2 Kings 19:13

¹³Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”

Numbers 13:21

²¹So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

Nahum 2:10

¹⁰She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

Isaiah 17:1-3

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

²The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid. ³The 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 the LORD of Armies.

2 Kings 17:24

²⁴The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, 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 its cities.