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Jeremiah 50:11

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

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ASV

Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

KJV

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֤יkithatH3588 →
תִשְׂמְחוּ֙tis.me.chiyou are rejoicingH8055 →
כִּ֣יkithatH3588 →
תַֽעֲלְז֔וּta.'al.ziyou are gloatingH5937 →
שֹׁסֵ֖יsho.SeiO plunderers ofH8154 →
נַחֲלָתִ֑יna.cha.la.Tiinheritance myH5159 →
כִּ֤יkithatH3588 →
תָפ֙וּשׁוּ֙ta.fu.shiyou are skipping aboutH6335 →
כְּעֶגְלָ֣הke.'eg.Lahlike a heiferH5697 →
דָשָׁ֔הda.ShahthreshingH1758 →
וְתִצְהֲל֖וּve.titz.ha.liso you may neighH6670 →
כָּאֲבִּרִֽים׃ka.'a.bi.Rimlike <the> mighty [horses]H47 →

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Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.Ezekiel 34:16I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’Isaiah 47:8So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’Deuteronomy 31:20When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.Judges 3:17and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.Zechariah 14:12And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.Isaiah 10:6–7I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.Jeremiah 51:34–35“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.Psalms 83:1–5O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.Hosea 10:11Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.Lamentations 2:15–16All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”Ezekiel 25:3–8Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,Zechariah 14:1–3Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.Proverbs 17:5He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

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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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