Jer 49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Damascus was a great city of trade, and whenever you have trade you have Hamath (the kenites see 1 Chron 2:55). Damascus means “tame heifer” and she goes the easiest way. The easiest way can lead the wrong way. The sea was well known by these traders. They knew when it was quiet, they knew the ancient trade routes, and they knew that when it was tempest with storms, that they could not control it and much damage might result from a sea full of sorrow. The news that arrived to them was that the King of Babylon and his system of trade that he sets up will fall.
Jer 49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
This connects to the LATTER DAYS because it shall be like a woman in travail.
Jer 49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
How is it that this great city trading magnificent treasures will fall? I mean they look so powerful and strong!
Jer 49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jer 49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
Benhadad means mighty. This will happen again because this is a type that happens even in the LATTER DAYS. The next verse introduces Kedar (the Bedouins living in and near Palestine) a son of Ishmael.
Jer 49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the EAST [KEDEM - MIDDLE EAST].
Now, Hazor means castle and is located near the Euphrates river and the Persian gulf.
Jer 49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
Fear is on every side, every side of Jerusalem, every side of every country in every land! They are afraid because they don’t have God with them. They don’t understand Him, they don’t believe Him, and they don’t know His Word. This verse might remind you of Magormissabib from Jer 20:3, which being interpreted means “fear on every side”. Passhur’s name meant freedom, but because of his attack on Jeremiah receive “fear everywhere”. There was no safe place for a resident of Judah to run and escape from God’s judgment against them.
Jer 49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
Jer 49:31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
There is only one nation that dwells in peace without walls. It looks all the way to the future to America which is blessed and wealthy without a care.
Jer 49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
Their wealth wasn’t in cattle this time, but in oil.
Jer 49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
That will mean that this will be a desolation even unto this day, where no man can dwell in the many desert areas.
Jer 49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah spake against Elam also. Elam means hidden in one sense.
Jer 49:35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
In Jer 25:25 Elam is mentioned with some of his allies and commanded to drink the cup of wrath right before the last king which is naturally Sheshach (a code word for Babylon).
Jer 49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
The four winds signify the end of the age! Revelation 7 and Daniel 7 both mention these winds. These winds will also control the kenites themselves.
This is the last nation to get a prophecy and the very last is satan himself, as the king of Babylon, also known as Sheshach.
Jer 49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even My fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
The kenites are not consumed until after the millennium.
Jer 49:38 And I will set My throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
God’s throne will be a throne of judgment in Elam.
Jer 49:39 But it shall come to pass in the LATTER days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
In the LATTER DAYS is now, and this prophet spoke of the Latter days even 2500 yrs ago!