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Jeremiah 48:2

There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

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ASV

The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue thee.

KJV

There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

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17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אֵ֣ין'einthere notH369 →
עוֹד֮'OdagainH5750 →
תְּהִלַּ֣תte.hi.Lat[will be] [the] praise ofH8416 →
מוֹאָב֒mo.'AvMoabH4124 →
בְּחֶשְׁבּ֗וֹןbe.chesh.Bonin HeshbonH2809 →
חָשְׁב֤וּcha.she.Vupeople have plannedH2803 →
עָלֶ֙יהָ֙'a.Lei.haon itH5921 →
רָעָ֔הra.'AhcalamityH7451 →
לְכ֖וּle.KhucomeH1980 →
וְנַכְרִיתֶ֣נָּהve.nakh.ri.Te.nahand let us cut off itH3772 →
מִגּ֑וֹיmi.Goyfrom a nationH1471 →
גַּם־gam-alsoH1571 →
מַדְמֵ֣ןmad.MenO MadmenH4086 →
תִּדֹּ֔מִּיti.Do.miyou will be silentH1826 →
אַחֲרַ֖יִךְ'a.cha.Ra.yikhafter youH310 →
תֵּ֥לֶךְTe.lekhit will goH1980 →
חָֽרֶב׃Cha.rev[the] swordH2719 →

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Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”Numbers 32:37The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,Isaiah 16:14And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”Jeremiah 31:36“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”Jeremiah 49:37So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.Jeremiah 48:45“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.Jeremiah 48:17Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!Jeremiah 25:17So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,Psalms 83:4–8saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”Jeremiah 46:28And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”Jeremiah 48:42Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.Isaiah 16:8–9For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.Jeremiah 48:34–35There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.Numbers 21:25–30Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.Esther 3:8–14Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.Isaiah 15:1This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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