The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 115
115. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 49
Of those who falsify the truths of the word and of the church, who are meant by the children of Ammon. (3, 15)
2 Truths and goods with them will be destroyed. (3, 17)
4-5 They will be dispersed. (3)
6 Those who have not falsified truths will be accepted. (11)
Of those who have falsified the external of the word who are meant by Edom. (3)
7-8 They will be destroyed by things falsified. (3)
9-13 Nothing of truth remains. (3)
14-18 Their total destruction. (3)
19-22 The last judgment is executed upon them, and they are cast down into hell. (15, 17)
Of those who pervert the knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, who are meant by Damascus. (3)
23-26 The doctrine of truth has been destroyed thereby. (3, 12)
Of those who pervert the knowledges [cognitiones] of good, who are meant by Arabia. (3)
28-30 They have destroyed the knowledges [cognitiones] of good and truth by reasonings. (3)
Of the falsification of doctrine, which is meant by Elam. (3)
34-36 The falsities of their doctrine will be dispersed. (3)
Jeremiah 49:9-13
9
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough?
10
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
11
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
12
For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.
13
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.