Jeremiah 48:32
in Jeremiah 48I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.
KJV
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
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This verse in Jeremiah 48
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Or, “More than the weeping of Jazer” over its ruined vineyards “will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah.” Compare the marginal reference. Jazer lies in an upland valley about 15 miles north of Heshbon. Thy plants ... - “Thy branches are gone over the sea, i. e.” the power of Moab is felt even on the western side of the Dead Sea; “they reached etc.”
This site's exposition
the pride of Moab
on Jeremiah 48:29-39
The indictment is piled in synonyms, his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart, and much of this section speaks in Isaiah 15 and 16's own words, two prophets carrying one burden a century apart, which the commentators set side by side. The strange thing is who weeps: therefore will I howl for Moab, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer, mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, the judge mourning inside his own sentence, and the bench pauses here, because the oracle's compassion is the Lord's own. The vintage fails with none to tread with shouting, every head bald and every beard clipped, and Moab is broken like a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), are carried into other countries, to be planted there. The spoiler has fallen upon thy summer-fruits and upon thy vintage, and it is this that makes the cry of Heshbon to reach even to Elealeh,
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O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
O vine of Sibmah - See on Isa 16:8 (note).
The words behind it
19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִבְּכִ֨י | mibekhi | more than [the] weeping of | H1065 → | 30 times |
| יַעְזֵ֤ר | ya'zer | Jazer | H3270 → | |
| אֶבְכֶּה־ | ʾevkeh- | I will weep | H1058 → | 114 times |
| לָּךְ֙ | lokh | for <the> you | ||
| הַגֶּ֣פֶן | hagefen | O vine of | H1612 → | 55 times |
| שִׂבְמָ֔ה | sivmah | Sibmah | H7643 → | |
| נְטִֽישֹׁתַ֙יִךְ֙ | netishotayikh | tendrils your | H5189 → | |
| עָ֣בְרוּ | ʾaveru | they passed over | H5674 → | 556 times |
| יָ֔ם | yam | [the] sea | H3220 → | 396 times |
| עַ֛ד | ʾad | to | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| יָ֥ם | yam | [the] sea of | H3220 → | 396 times |
| יַעְזֵ֖ר | ya'zer | Jazer | H3270 → | |
| נָגָ֑עוּ | nagau | they reached | H5060 → | 150 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| קֵיצֵ֥ךְ | keitzekh | summer fruit your | H7019 → | 20 times |
| וְעַל־ | veal- | and on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| בְּצִירֵ֖ךְ | betzirekh | grape harvest your | H1210 → | |
| שֹׁדֵ֥ד | shoded | a destroyer | H7703 → | 57 times |
| נָפָֽל׃ | nafal | he has fallen | H5307 → | 435 times |
מִבְּכִ֨יmore than [the] weeping of
mibekhiH1065 →30 times
יַעְזֵ֤רJazer
ya'zerH3270 →
אֶבְכֶּה־I will weep
ʾevkeh-H1058 →114 times
לָּךְ֙for <the> you
lokh
הַגֶּ֣פֶןO vine of
hagefenH1612 →55 times
שִׂבְמָ֔הSibmah
sivmahH7643 →
נְטִֽישֹׁתַ֙יִךְ֙tendrils your
netishotayikhH5189 →
עָ֣בְרוּthey passed over
ʾaveruH5674 →556 times
יָ֔ם[the] sea
yamH3220 →396 times
עַ֛דto
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
יָ֥ם[the] sea of
yamH3220 →396 times
יַעְזֵ֖רJazer
ya'zerH3270 →
נָגָ֑עוּthey reached
nagauH5060 →150 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
קֵיצֵ֥ךְsummer fruit your
keitzekhH7019 →20 times
וְעַל־and on
veal-H5921 →5755 times
בְּצִירֵ֖ךְgrape harvest your
betzirekhH1210 →
שֹׁדֵ֥דa destroyer
shodedH7703 →57 times
נָפָֽל׃he has fallen
nafalH5307 →435 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
Numbers 21:32After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
it leads to
- Numbers 32:1
Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
- Numbers 32:1
Through
Jeremiah 40:10As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars,…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 40:12
they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer…
- Jeremiah 39:10
But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
- Jeremiah 35:19
this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”
- Deuteronomy 1:38
Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
- 2 Samuel 16:1
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a…
- Jeremiah 40:12
Through
Jeremiah 48:18Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.
it leads to
- Isaiah 47:1
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
- Numbers 21:30
But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
- Isaiah 47:1
About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
