Jeremiah 49:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Flee; turn back; get down low, inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Flee, turn back, dwell deep [in the deserts to escape the Chaldeans], O inhabitants of Dedan [neighbor of Edom]! For I will bring the calamity and destruction of Esau upon him [Edom] when I inspect and punish him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Flee ye, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him.

Common English Bible

⁸ Turn, flee, and run for cover, you inhabitants of Dedan. I’m bringing disaster on Esau: its day of reckoning.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Flee and turn your backs! Descend into the chasm, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I have brought the perdition of Esau over him, the time of his visitation.

Jeremiah 49:8 Cross References

Jeremiah 25:23

Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have shaved temples;

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her mercenaries in her midst are like fatted calves; they, too, have turned and fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 49:30

Flee; wander far away; hide in deep places, O inhabitants of Hazor! says the Lord. For King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has made a plan against you and formed a purpose against you.

Isaiah 21:13

The oracle concerning the desert plain. In the scrub of the desert plain you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

Revelation 6:15

Then the kings of the earth and the magnates and the generals and the rich and the powerful and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Alas for them, their day has come, the time of their punishment!

Jeremiah 49:32

Their camels shall become plunder; their herds of cattle a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who have shaved temples, and I will bring calamity against them from every side, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:44

Everyone who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and everyone who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the trap. For I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:28

Leave the towns, and live on the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests on the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee! Save yourselves! Be like a wild ass in the desert!

Jeremiah 6:1

Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for evil looms out of the north and great destruction.

Isaiah 2:21

to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts in the crags, from the terror of the Lord and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

1 Samuel 13:6

When the Israelites saw that they were in distress (for the troops were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns.

Judges 6:2

The hand of Midian prevailed over Israel, and because of Midian the Israelites provided for themselves hiding places in the mountains, caves and strongholds.

Isaiah 34:5

When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, upon Edom it will fall, upon the people I have doomed to judgment.

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it humans and animals, and I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

Malachi 1:3

but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.

Malachi 1:4

If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.