Jeremiah 49:19

Like a lion bursting from the Jordan thickets, God will suddenly drive Edom out, for no one can challenge or stand against Him. The LORD's incomparable sovereignty makes the judgment certain.

Cross-references · 22

• Jer 12:5“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
• Jer 30:21Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.
• Jer 50:44–46Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
• Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
• Exod 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
• Job 41:10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
• Josh 3:15Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
• Job 40:2–8“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
• Nah 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
• Zech 11:3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
• Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Ps 89:8O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
• Ps 113:5–6Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
• Ps 89:6For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
• Ps 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
• Rev 6:17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
• Jer 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
• 1 Chr 12:15These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.
• Isa 40:25“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
• Job 42:3–5You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
• Job 9:21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
• Job 23:3–7If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

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