A purpose against you - Others read “against them” (the wealthy nation, Jeremiah 49:31).

Dwell deep. —See Note on Jeremiah 49:8. The dwellers in the villages of Hazor are told, as those of Dedan had been, to flee into the furth…

Jeremiah continues here with the same subject, but expresses more clearly what he had said: Flee, he says, depart far away. I rea…

Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O you inhabitants of Hazor, saith the Lord. The same is said…

Nebuchadnezzar would make desolation among the people of Kedar, who lived in the deserts of Arabia. He who conquered many strong cities will not le…