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Jeremiah 48:38

in Jeremiah 48

On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah.

KJV

There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord.

This verse in Jeremiah 48

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

We have heard of Moab’s pomposity

on Jeremiah 48:29-39

Moab’s pride is named in a string of words: “his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.” Much of this section follows Isaiah 15 and 16. The LORD mourns in His sentence, “I will wail for Moab,” and “My heart laments like a flute for Moab.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The delights of sense were all the matter of their joy. Take away these, destroy their gardens and vineyards, and you make all their mirth to cease, Hos. ii. There is great weeping when their plants are transplanted, have gone over the sea (

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There shall be lamentation generally,....

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • עַ֣ל[will be] on

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • גַּגּ֥וֹת[the] roofs of

    gagotH1406 →30 times

  • מוֹאָ֛בMoab

    moavH4124 →181 times

  • וּבִרְחֹבֹתֶ֖יהָand in open places its

    uvirchoteihaH7339 →43 times

  • כֻּלֹּ֣הall of it

    kulohH3605 →5413 times

  • מִסְפֵּ֑דwailing

    mispedH4553 →

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • שָׁבַ֣רְתִּיI will break

    shavartiH7665 →147 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מוֹאָ֗בMoab

    moavH4124 →181 times

  • כִּכְלִ֛יlike a vessel

    kikhliH3627 →325 times

  • אֵֽין־[which] there not

    ʾein-H369 →789 times

  • חֵ֥פֶץ[is] pleasure

    chefetzH2656 →

  • בּ֖וֹin <the> it

    bo

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →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 stops

Each 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 30:14

    It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 2:9

      You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

    • Jeremiah 19:10–11

      Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

    • 2 Peter 2:4–5

      For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

  • Through

    Jeremiah 22:28

    Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

    it leads to

    • Hosea 8:8

      Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

    • Psalms 31:12

      I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

  • Through

    Isaiah 22:1

    This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 21:13

      Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

    • Psalms 125:2

      As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 25:34

    Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 6:26

      O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Where this verse is studied

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About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.