Jeremiah 49:16

God's Word

You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there,” declares the Lord.

Cross References

2 Kings 14:7

Amaziah killed 10,000 Edomites in the Dead Sea region and took the city of Sela in battle. He gave it the name Joktheel, which is still its name today.

Job 39:27

Is it by your order that the eagle flies high and makes its nest on the heights?

Proverbs 16:18

Pride precedes a disaster, and an arrogant attitude precedes a fall.

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love to talk will have to eat their own words.

Proverbs 29:23

A person’s pride will humiliate him, but a humble spirit gains honor.

Song of Solomon 2:14

My dove, in the hiding places of the rocky crevices, in the secret places of the cliffs, let me see your figure and hear your voice. Your voice is sweet, and your figure is lovely.”

Isaiah 10:14

I’ve found the riches of nations as one finds a nest. I’ve gathered the whole world as one gathers abandoned eggs. Not one of them flapped a wing, opened its mouth, or peeped.”

Isaiah 2:21

They will go into caves in the rocks and into cracks in the cliffs because of the Lord’s terrifying presence and the honor of his majesty when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 49:25

This is what the Lord says: Prisoners will be freed from mighty men. Loot will be taken away from tyrants. I will fight your enemies, and I will save your children.

Jeremiah 48:14

“How can you say, ‘We are soldiers and warriors’?

Jeremiah 49:15

“Edom, I will make you the smallest of nations and despised among humanity.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Call together the archers, the soldiers with bows, against Babylon. Set up blockades around it. Don’t let anyone escape. Pay the people of Babylon back for what they have done. Do to them what they did to others. They have disobeyed the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:53

The people of Babylon might go up to heaven. They might fortify their strongholds. But destroyers will still come from me against them,” declares the Lord.

Amos 9:2

Even if they dig their way into Sheol, my hand will take them from there. Even if they go up to heaven, I will bring them down from there.

Habakkuk 2:9

“ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who uses violence to get things for his own household in order to set his nest up high and save himself from disaster.’

Malachi 1:3

but Esau I hated. I turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the jackals in the desert.