49:21 The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall. 4
Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba. 5
1 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
2 sn Tyre and Sidon are mentioned within the judgment on the Philistines in Jer 47:4. They were Phoenician cities to the north and west of Judah on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in what is now Lebanon.
map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
3 sn The connection with Tyre and Sidon suggests that these were Phoenician colonies. See also Isa 23:2.
4 tn Heb “The earth will quake when at the sound of their downfall.” However, as in many other places “earth” stands here metonymically for the inhabitants or people of the earth (see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 578-79, and compare usage in 2 Sam 15:23; Ps 66:4).
5 tn Heb “the Red Sea,” of which the Gulf of Aqaba formed the northeastern arm. The land of Edom once reached this far according to 1 Kgs 9:26.