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Jeremiah 49:15
“For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.”
Jeremiah 49:15 in the King James Version
For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.Read Jeremiah 49:15 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Jeremiah 49
For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.
I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.
As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
Cross references for Jeremiah 49:15
- Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
- Obadiah 1:2
Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
- 1 Samuel 2:7-8
Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth...
- Psalms 53:5
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
- Luke 1:51
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
- 1 Samuel 2:30
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me ...
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