Jer 49:8 | NET2full | STEP | Turn and flee ! Take up refuge in remote places , you people who live in Dedan . For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau . I have decided it is time for me to punish them.

‏ Jeremiah 49:8

8 Turn and flee! Take up refuge in remote places, ^{▼▼tn Heb “make deep to dwell.” The meaning of this phrase is debated. Some take it as a call for the Dedanites, who were not native to Edom, to go down from the heights of Edom and go back home (so G. L. Keown, P. J. Scalise, T. G. Smothers, Jeremiah 26-52 [WBC], 330). The majority of commentaries, however, take it as a call for the Dedanites to disassociate themselves from the Edomites and find remote hiding places to live in (so J. A. Thompson, Jeremiah [NICOT], 718). For the options see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 2:375.}
you people who live in Dedan. ^{▼▼sn Dedan. The Dedanites were an Arabian tribe who lived to the southeast of Edom. They are warned here to disassociate themselves from Edom because Edom is about to suffer disaster.}
For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau.
I have decided it is time for me to punish them. ^{▼▼tn Heb “For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him, the time when I will punish him.” Esau was the progenitor of the tribes and nation of Edom (cf. Gen 36:1, 8, 9, 19).}