Jeremiah 48:33
in Jeremiah 48Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.
KJV
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
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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)
Winepresses - Rather, “wine-vats,” into which the wine runs from the presses. Their shouting shall be no shouting - The vintage shout is - silence. For the vines have been destroyed, and desolation reigns where once was the joyful cry of those who tread the grapes.
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
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field,....
Note, Those who make the delights of sense their chief joy, their exceeding joy, since these are things they may easily be deprived of in a little time subject themselves to the tyranny of the greatest grief; whereas those who rejoice in God may do that even when the fig-tree does not blossom and there is no fruit in the vine.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
However, Moab alone seems to be spoken of here; nor does the parallelism forbid "plentiful field" answering to "Moab." English Version is therefore better. shouting--repeated; as at the conclusion of the vintage, men sing over and over again the same cry of joy.
The words behind it
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְנֶאֶסְפָ֨ה | veneesfah | and it has been removed | H622 → | 200 times |
| שִׂמְחָ֥ה | simchah | joy | H8057 → | 94 times |
| וָגִ֛יל | vagil | and rejoicing | H1524 → | |
| מִכַּרְמֶ֖ל | mikarmel | from [the] garden-land | H3759 → | 17 times |
| וּמֵאֶ֣רֶץ | umeeretz | and from [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מוֹאָ֑ב | moav | Moab | H4124 → | 181 times |
| וְיַ֙יִן֙ | veyayin | and wine | H3196 → | 141 times |
| מִיקָבִ֣ים | mikavim | from wine-presses | H3342 → | |
| הִשְׁבַּ֔תִּי | hishbati | I have made to cease | H7673 → | 71 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יִדְרֹ֣ךְ | yidrokh | anyone will tread | H1869 → | 62 times |
| הֵידָ֔ד | heidad | shouting | H1959 → | 7 times |
| הֵידָ֖ד | heidad | shouting | H1959 → | 7 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| הֵידָֽד׃ | heidad | shouting | H1959 → | 7 times |
וְנֶאֶסְפָ֨הand it has been removed
veneesfahH622 →200 times
שִׂמְחָ֥הjoy
simchahH8057 →94 times
וָגִ֛ילand rejoicing
vagilH1524 →
מִכַּרְמֶ֖לfrom [the] garden-land
mikarmelH3759 →17 times
וּמֵאֶ֣רֶץand from [the] land of
umeeretzH776 →2504 times
מוֹאָ֑בMoab
moavH4124 →181 times
וְיַ֙יִן֙and wine
veyayinH3196 →141 times
מִיקָבִ֣יםfrom wine-presses
mikavimH3342 →
הִשְׁבַּ֔תִּיI have made to cease
hishbatiH7673 →71 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
יִדְרֹ֣ךְanyone will tread
yidrokhH1869 →62 times
הֵידָ֔דshouting
heidadH1959 →7 times
הֵידָ֖דshouting
heidadH1959 →7 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
הֵידָֽד׃shouting
heidadH1959 →7 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
Haggai 2:16from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
it leads to
- Haggai 1:6
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Haggai 1:6
Through
Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
it leads to
- Haggai 1:9–11
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 26:26
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Haggai 2:16
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
- Haggai 1:9–11
Through
Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
it leads to
- James 5:1
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- Luke 21:34–36
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- Isaiah 32:10–12
In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
- Isaiah 24:7–11
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- James 5:1
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
