Jeremiah 49:16

New International Version

The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

Cross References

2 Kings 14:7

He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.

Job 39:27

Does the eagle soar at your command and build its nest on high?

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 29:23

Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.

Song of Solomon 2:14

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Isaiah 10:14

As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’ ”

Isaiah 2:21

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 49:25

But this is what the Lord says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.

Jeremiah 48:14

“How can you say, ‘We are warriors, men valiant in battle’?

Jeremiah 49:15

“Now I will make you small among the nations, despised by mankind.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who draw the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her for her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:53

Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, I will send destroyers against her,” declares the Lord.

Amos 9:2

Though they dig down to the depths below, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens above, from there I will bring them down.

Habakkuk 2:9

“Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!

Malachi 1:3

but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”