Jeremiah 48:20
in Jeremiah 48Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
KJV
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
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This verse in Jeremiah 48
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
come down from thy glory
on Jeremiah 48:18-28
Dibon is told to come down from glory and sit in thirst, Aroer to stand by the road and ask the fugitives what is done, and then the catalogue runs the plain country town by town, Holon, Jahazah, Mephaath, Dibon, Nebo, and the rest, judgment given as an itinerary. The horn cut off and the arm broken state the end in the body's own emblems of strength. The ground returns at verse 26, he magnified himself against the Lord, with verse 27's question, was not Israel a derision unto thee?, the mockery of the exiles' calamity now answered in kind, and the counsel to dwell in the rock like the dove nesting at the hole's mouth is the oracle's one mercy in this stretch.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
); they will abandon themselves to solitude, to lament the desolations of their country; they will leave the cities that used to be full of mirth, and dwell in the rock where they may have their full of melancholy; they shall no more be singing birds, but mourning birds, like the dove (
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Moab is confounded, for it is broken down,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Tell ye it in Arnon - Apprize the inhabitants there that the territories of Moab are invaded, and the country about to be destroyed, that they may provide for their own safety.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Or, “Moab is ashamed, because she (Dibon) is broken” by her fortifications being battered down.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֹבִ֥ישׁ | hovish | it has been put to shame | H954 → | 127 times |
| מוֹאָ֛ב | moav | Moab | H4124 → | 181 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| חַ֖תָּה | chatah | it has been shattered | H2865 → | 52 times |
| הֵילִ֣ילוּ | heilili | wail | H3213 → | 30 times |
| וּֽזְעָ֑קוּ | uzeaki | and cry out | H2199 → | 73 times |
| הַגִּ֣ידוּ | hagidu | declare | H5046 → | 370 times |
| בְאַרְנ֔וֹן | vearnon | at [the] Arnon | H769 → | |
| כִּ֥י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| שֻׁדַּ֖ד | shudad | it has been devastated | H7703 → | 57 times |
| מוֹאָֽב׃ | moav | Moab | H4124 → | 181 times |
הֹבִ֥ישׁit has been put to shame
hovishH954 →127 times
מוֹאָ֛בMoab
moavH4124 →181 times
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
חַ֖תָּהit has been shattered
chatahH2865 →52 times
הֵילִ֣ילוּwail
heililiH3213 →30 times
וּֽזְעָ֑קוּand cry out
uzeakiH2199 →73 times
הַגִּ֣ידוּdeclare
hagiduH5046 →370 times
בְאַרְנ֔וֹןat [the] Arnon
vearnonH769 →
כִּ֥יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
שֻׁדַּ֖דit has been devastated
shudadH7703 →57 times
מוֹאָֽב׃Moab
moavH4124 →181 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 16:2Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
it leads to
- Proverbs 27:8
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
- Judges 11:18
Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon.…
- Deuteronomy 3:12
So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with…
- Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God…
- Proverbs 27:8
Through
Judges 11:18Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon.…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 2:1–8
Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
- Numbers 21:4–13
Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
- Numbers 22:36
When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.
- Numbers 33:37–44
They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.
- Deuteronomy 2:1–8
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.