Jeremiah 48:25
in Jeremiah 48The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.
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ASV
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith Jehovah.
KJV
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.
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This verse in Jeremiah 48
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe horn of Moab is cut off,.... The kingdom of Moab, high and strong, his power and strength, by which he defended himself, and offended others, as a beast with his horns; his powerful kingdom, and the glory of it: and his arm is broken, saith the Lord; so that he cannot hold a sword, or manage any weapon of war against the enemy, or do anything to annoy him, or in his own defence.
This 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 Awakening1 voice
Note, When iniquity is universal we have reason to expect that calamity should be so too. The kingdom is deprived of its dignity and authority: The horn of Moab is cut off, the horn of its strength and power, both offensive and defensive; his arm is broken, that he can neither give a blow nor prevent a blow,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken - His political and physical powers are no more.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The horn - i. e., his pride (marginal reference); his arm, i. e., his strength Jer 17:5.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נִגְדְּעָה֙ | nigdeah | it will be cut off | H1438 → | |
| קֶ֣רֶן | keren | [the] horn of | H7161 → | |
| מוֹאָ֔ב | moav | Moab | H4124 → | 181 times |
| וּזְרֹע֖וֹ | uzeroo | and arm its | H2220 → | 91 times |
| נִשְׁבָּ֑רָה | nishbarah | it will be broken | H7665 → | 147 times |
| נְאֻ֖ם | neum | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
נִגְדְּעָה֙it will be cut off
nigdeahH1438 →
קֶ֣רֶן[the] horn of
kerenH7161 →
מוֹאָ֔בMoab
moavH4124 →181 times
וּזְרֹע֖וֹand arm its
uzerooH2220 →91 times
נִשְׁבָּ֑רָהit will be broken
nishbarahH7665 →147 times
נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of
neumH5002 →376 times
יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 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
Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
it leads to
- Psalms 37:17
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
- Job 38:15
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
- Zephaniah 1:12
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
- Psalms 37:17
Through
Psalms 75:10“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
it leads to
- Psalms 89:17
For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.
- Psalms 92:10
But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
- Psalms 148:14
He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!
- Zechariah 1:20–21
Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
- Psalms 101:8
Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
- Psalms 89:17
About Jeremiah
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
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 (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.