Jeremiah 48:4
in Jeremiah 48Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
KJV
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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This verse in Jeremiah 48
Commentary
4 notes on this verseMoab is destroyed,.... Either the whole nation in general; so the Targum, "the kingdom of Moab is broken;'' and so Abarbinel; or a city so called, which some take to be the city Areopolis. Jerom (g) says, that Moab is a city of Arabia, now called Areopolis; and which also has the name of Rabbathmoab, or "grand Moab"; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard; seeing their parents killed, and they left desolate, and in the hands of the enemy; and not only so, but just going to be dashed in pieces by them.
This site's exposition
Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says
on Jeremiah 48:1-10
The oracle names Moab’s towns, and verse 7 gives the cause: “Because you trust in your works and treasures.” Moab’s god goes too: “Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.” Verse 10 curses the one who “withholds his sword from bloodshed,” a charge not to spare Moab.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Go up to the hills, go down to the valleys, and you meet with continual weeping (weeping with weeping ); all are in tears; you meet none with dry eyes. Even the enemies have heard the cry, from whom it would have been policy to conceal it, for they will be animated and encouraged by it; but it is so great that it cannot be hid, 3.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Moab - Probably the city elsewhere called Ar-Moab. See the Septuagint of this verse.
The words behind it
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה | nishberah | it will be broken | H7665 → | 147 times |
| מוֹאָ֑ב | moav | Moab | H4124 → | 181 times |
| הִשְׁמִ֥יעוּ | hishmiu | they will make heard | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| זְּעָקָ֖ה | zeakah | a cry of distress | H2201 → | 18 times |
| צְעִירֶֽיהָ׃ | tzeoreiha | servants its | H6810 → | 23 times |
נִשְׁבְּרָ֖הit will be broken
nishberahH7665 →147 times
מוֹאָ֑בMoab
moavH4124 →181 times
הִשְׁמִ֥יעוּthey will make heard
hishmiuH8085 →1159 times
זְּעָקָ֖הa cry of distress
zeakahH2201 →18 times
צְעִירֶֽיהָ׃servants its
tzeoreihaH6810 →23 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 137:9Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
it leads to
- Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
- Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
- Nahum 3:10
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in…
- 2 Kings 8:12
“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword,…
- Hosea 10:14
the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with…
- Isaiah 13:16
Through
Esther 8:11By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile…
it leads to
- Esther 3:13
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on…
- Psalms 37:14–15
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
- Psalms 146:6–9
the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
- Esther 3:13
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.