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Jeremiah 48:12

"Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when I will send to Moab those who will tip him over and who will empty his vessels and break his [earthenware] jars in pieces.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bottle;   Wine;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Bottles;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Moabites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heshbon;   Kiriathaim;   Lees;   Pisgah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jug;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Madmen;   Moab, Moabites;   Obadiah, Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nebo;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon ammonites children of ammon;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bottle;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Break;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore look, the days are coming—
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
King James Version
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
English Standard Version
"Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord , when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces.
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will pour out his vessels and smash his jars.
New Century Version
A time is coming," says the Lord , "When I will send people to pour you from your jars. They will empty Moab's jars and smash her jugs.
World English Bible
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore beholde, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will send vnto him such as shall carie him away, and shall emptie his vessels, and breake their bottels.
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
Contemporary English Version
But now, I will send enemies to pour out the wine and smash the jars!
Complete Jewish Bible
"So the days are coming," says Adonai , "when I will send people to tilt him; they will tilt his jars, emptying them and shattering the wine-flasks to pieces.
Darby Translation
Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him pourers that shall pour him off, and shall empty his vessels, and break in pieces his flagons.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord says: "But I will soon send men to pour you from your jars. Then they will empty the jars and smash them to pieces."
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore, Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will send robbers against them, and they shall plunder them and empty their vessels and destroy their wine containers.
Good News Translation
"So now, the time is coming when I will send people to pour Moab out like wine. They will empty its wine jars and break them in pieces.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will send to him decanters, and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash.
Literal Translation
So, behold, the days come, declares Jehovah, that I will send pourers to him, who shall pour him off, and shall empty his vessels, and break their jars in pieces.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But lo, the tyme commeth (saieth the LORDE) that I shall sende hir trussers to trusse her vp, to prepare and season hir vessels: yee hir tankerdes rattell, and shake to & fro.
American Standard Version
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Bible in Basic English
So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him them that tilt up, and they shall tilt him up; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
King James Version (1611)
Therfore behold, the dayes come, sayth the Lord, that I will send vnto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander, and shall emptie his vessels, and breake their bottles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But lo, the tyme commeth saith the Lorde, that I shall sende her trussers to trusse her vp, whiche shall remoue her from her dwelling, and emptie her vessels, and breake her wine pottes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and found him near much water in Gabaon.
English Revised Version
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor lo! daies comun, seith the Lord, and Y schal sende to it ordeynours, and arayeris of potels; and thei schulen araye it, and thei schulen waste the vessels therof, and hurtle togidere the potels of hem.
Update Bible Version
Therefore, look, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him those that pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send to him wanderers that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
New English Translation
But the time is coming when I will send men against Moab who will empty it out. They will empty the towns of their people, then will lay those towns in ruins. I, the Lord , affirm it!
New King James Version
"Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I shall send him wine-workers Who will tip him over And empty his vessels And break the bottles.
New Living Translation
But the time is coming soon," says the Lord , "when I will send men to pour him from his jar. They will pour him out, then shatter the jar!
New Life Bible
The days are coming," says the Lord, "when I will send to him those who turn over jars, and they will turn him over. They will empty his jars and break them in pieces.
New Revised Standard
Therefore, the time is surely coming, says the Lord , when I shall send to him decanters to decant him, and empty his vessels, and break his jars in pieces.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When I will send to him tilters and they shall tilt him, - And his vessels, shall they empty, And their jars, shall they dash in pieces.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another.
Revised Standard Version
"Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I shall send to him tilters who will tilt him, and empty his vessels, and break his jars in pieces.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sent to him wanderers, And they have caused him to wander, And his vessels they empty out, And his bottles they dash in pieces.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

Contextual Overview

1Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Woe (judgment is coming) to [the city of] Nebo, for it has been destroyed! Kiriathaim has been shamed, it has been captured; Misgab [the high fortress] has been shamed, broken down and crushed. 2"The glory of Moab is no more; In Heshbon they planned evil against her, Saying, 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O [city of] Madmen, shall be silenced; The sword will pursue you. 3"The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, 'Desolation and great destruction!' 4"Moab is destroyed; Her little ones have called out a cry of distress [to be heard as far as Zoar]. 5"For the Ascent of Luhith Will be climbed by [successive groups of] fugitives with continual weeping; For on the descent of Horonaim They have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. 6"Run! Save your lives, That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness. 7"For because you have trusted in your works [your hand-made idols] and in your treasures [instead of in God], Even you yourself will be captured; And Chemosh [your disgusting god cannot rescue you, but] will go away into exile [along with the fugitives] Together with his priests and his princes. 8"And the destroyer will come upon every city; No city will escape. The [Jordan] valley also will be ruined And the plain will be devastated, As the LORD has said. 9"Give a gravestone to Moab, For she will fall into ruins; Her cities (pastures, farms) will be desolate, Without anyone to live in them. 10"Cursed is the one who does the work of the LORD negligently, And cursed is the one who restrains his sword from blood [in executing the judgment of the LORD].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wanderers: Jeremiah 48:8, Jeremiah 48:15, Jeremiah 25:9, Isaiah 16:2, Ezekiel 25:9, Ezekiel 25:10

empty: Jeremiah 48:11, Jeremiah 48:38, Jeremiah 14:3, Jeremiah 19:10, Jeremiah 25:34, Psalms 2:9, Isaiah 30:14, Nahum 2:2

Reciprocal: Proverbs 1:32 - prosperity Isaiah 32:9 - ye women Jeremiah 13:14 - I will dash Jeremiah 51:34 - he hath made

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
When he raised his eyes and looked up, behold, three men were standing [a little distance] from him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed down [with his face] to the ground,
Genesis 19:1
It was evening when the two angels came to Sodom. Lot was sitting at Sodom's [city] gate. Seeing them, Lot got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Genesis 23:7
So Abraham stood up and bowed to the people of the land, the Hittites.
Genesis 33:3
Then Jacob crossed over [the stream] ahead of them and bowed himself to the ground seven times [bowing and moving forward each time], until he approached his brother.
Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was the ruler over the land, and he was the one who sold [grain] to all the people of the land; and Joseph's [half] brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
Exodus 20:12
"Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the LORD your God gives you.
Exodus 34:8
Moses bowed to the earth immediately and worshiped [the Lord].
Leviticus 19:3
'Each of you shall respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:32
'You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the LORD.
1 Kings 2:19
So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat down on his throne; then he had a throne set for her, the king's mother, and she sat on his right.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... This being their case, they should not continue in it; a change would be made, and that in a very short time, as there was; for, according to Josephus p, it was about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem that the Moabites were subdued by the king of Babylon:

that I will send unto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander; the Chaldeans, who wandered out of their own country to Moab, directed by the providence of God to come there to do his work; and who, at first, might be treated by the Moabites with contempt, as vagrants, but would soon be made to know that they would cause them to wander; or would remove them out of their own country into other lands, particularly Babylon, to be vagrants there. The word may be rendered "travellers" q; and signifies such that walk with great strength of body, in a stately way, and with great agility and swiftness; in which manner the Chaldeans are described as coming to Moab, and who should cause them to travel back with them in all haste; see word in Isaiah 63:1. The Targum renders it "spoilers"; according to the metaphor of wine used in

Jeremiah 48:11, it may signify a sort of persons that cause wine to go, or empty it from one vessel to another; such as we call "wine coopers"; and this agrees with what follows:

and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles; depopulate the cities of Moab; destroy the inhabitants of them, and make them barren and empty of men. The Targum is,

"I will send spoilers upon them, and they shall spoil them, and empty their substance, and consume the good of their land;''

see Jeremiah 48:8. The Septuagint version is, "they shall cut in pieces his horns"; which, as Origen r interprets them, were a kind of cups anciently used; for in former times they drank out of horns, either of oxen, or other animals; and Pliny s says that the northern people used to drink out of the horns of buffaloes, a creature larger than a bull, and which the Muscovites call "thur"; the same is asserted by Athenaeus t, and others, that the horns of beasts were drinking vessels before cups were invented.

p Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7. q צעים "viatores", Tigurine version. r Apud Drusium in fragmentis in loc. s Nat. Hist. l. 11. e. 37. t Deipnosoph. l. 11. p. 235. Rhodigin. 1. 30.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will send - tilters “unto him and they shall” tilt “him, and they shall empty his vessels, and break their” pitchers “in pieces.” “Pitchers” originally meant “skins,” but the word came to signify small earthenware jars Isaiah 30:14 : thus the Chaldaeans shall destroy of Moab everything that has contained the wine of her political life both small and great.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 48:12. I will send unto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander — Dr. Blayney renders צעים tsaim, tilters; those who elevate one end of the wine cask when nearly run out that the remains of the liquor may be the more effectually drawn off at the cock. And this seems to be well supported by the following words, -

And shall empty his vessels — I will send such as will carry the whole nation into captivity.


 
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