THEOSISJeremiah 49:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast them down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation.
לָכֵ֞ן שִׁמְע֣וּ עֲצַת־יְהוָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר יָעַץ֙ אֶל־אֱד֔וֹם וּמַ֨חְשְׁבוֹתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָשַׁ֖ב אֶל־יֹשְׁבֵ֣י תֵימָ֑ן אִם־לֹ֤א יִסְחָבוּם֙ צְעִירֵ֣י הַצֹּ֔אן אִם־לֹ֥א יַשִּׁ֛ים עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם נְוֵהֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 50:45Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken against Babylon: and his thoughts which he hath thought against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the flocks shall pull them down, of a truth their habitation shall be destroyed with them.
- Mal 1:3But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.
- Mal 1:4But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.
- Jer 49:7Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.
- Acts 4:28To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.
- Isa 14:24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,
- Isa 14:27For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?
- Eph 1:11In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.