Jeremiah 49:21
 Jeremiah 49:21 
New International Version (©2011)
At the sound of their fall the earth will tremble; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The earth will shake with the noise of Edom's fall, and its cry of despair will be heard all the way to the Red Sea.

English Standard Version (©2001)
At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The earth will quake at the sound of their fall. A cry—it's her voice—is heard at the Reed Sea.

NET Bible (©2006)
The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall. Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The earth will quake at the sound of their downfall. The sound of their crying will be heard at the Red Sea.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry its noise was heard at the Red sea.

American King James Version
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

American Standard Version
The earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of their voice is heard in the Red Sea.

Darby Bible Translation
The earth quaketh at the sound of their fall; there is a cry, the sound whereof is heard in the Red sea.

English Revised Version
The earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

Webster's Bible Translation
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise of it was heard in the Red sea.

World English Bible
The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.

Young's Literal Translation
From the noise of their fall hath the earth shaken, The cry -- at the sea of Suph is its voice heard.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

49:7-22 The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Israel of God, whose afflictions were aggravated by them. Thus Divine judgments go round from nation to nation; the earth is full of commotion, and nothing can escape the ministers of Divine vengeance. The righteousness of God is to be observed amidst the violence of men.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - Is moved; rather, quaketh (as Jeremiah 8:16). It is a pity that the Authorized Version has not preserved the present tense throughout the verse. The prophet seems to see his prediction realized before him. In the Red Sea; rather, beside the Bed Sea; comp. 1 Kings 9:26, "Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom."


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The earth is moved at the noise of their fall,.... Of the Edomites; whose fall was from the height of greatness and glory to a very low condition indeed; and as things, the higher they are from whence they fall, the greater noise they make, so it was with the Edomites; perhaps there may be some allusion to the falling of rocks and hills, with which Edom, abounded: this may respect either the noise and shout of the conquerors, when they fell; or the cry of the Edomites, when taken and destroyed; or the report of their destruction, when it came into the world; which struck the inhabitants of the whole earth with terror and amazement, so that they trembled at it; an hyperbolical expression, as Kimchi observes:

at the cry, the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea, or, "sea of Suph", or "weeds"; where weeds and rushes grew in great abundance, from whence it had its name. This is the Arabian gulf, which washed the shores of Edom, and was called the Red sea from thence, Edom signifying red. The meaning is, that the cry of the slain, or of the conquerors at the slaughter of them, should be heard to the borders of the land, to the sea shore, and by those in ships there; who should carry the report of it to each of the parts of the world.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

21. was heard in—that is, shall be heard at.

Red Sea—a considerable distance from Idumea; though the district at the Elantic bay of the Red Sea originally belonged to Idumea, and the sea itself was called from Edom, that is, "red" (Ge 25:30, Margin). Others translate, "the weedy sea" (Margin), and derive the name, "Red Sea," from its red weeds; the former view is preferable.


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The Judgment on Edom
20Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them. 21The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. 22Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 50:46 At the sound of Babylon's capture the earth will tremble; its cry will resound among the nations.
Ezekiel 26:15 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you?
Ezekiel 26:18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea are terrified at your collapse.'