Jeremiah 49:19
Hebrew Text— Jeremiah 49:19“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.
There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might.
Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?
you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart;
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
“You shall have no other gods before me.
When the priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,
But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.
The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”
“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.
Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.
Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”
These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger.
“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”