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American Standard Version

Jeremiah 48:4

Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Moabites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heshbon;   Kiriathaim;   Pisgah;   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;   Moab;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Kir'ioth;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Zoar;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Moab will be shattered;her little ones will cry out.
Hebrew Names Version
Mo'av is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
King James Version
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
English Standard Version
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry.
New American Standard Bible
"Moab is broken, Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.
New Century Version
Moab will be broken up. Her little children will cry for help.
Amplified Bible
"Moab is destroyed; Her little ones have called out a cry of distress [to be heard as far as Zoar].
World English Bible
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moab is destroyed: her litle ones haue caused their crie to be heard.
Legacy Standard Bible
Moab is broken;Her little ones have made their cry of distress heard.
Berean Standard Bible
Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.
Contemporary English Version
Moab will be shattered! Your children will sob
Complete Jewish Bible
Mo'av has been shattered; the cries of her young ones are heard,
Darby Translation
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moab will be destroyed. Her little children will cry for help.
George Lamsa Translation
Moab is destroyed; her poor people have published her lamentation.
Good News Translation
"Moab has been destroyed; listen to the children crying.
Lexham English Bible
Moab is broken, her little ones make heard a cry for help.
Literal Translation
Moab is broken up; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
is Moab made desolate. And this crie shalbe herde in all hir cities.
Bible in Basic English
Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
King James Version (1611)
Moab is destroyed, her little ones haue caused a crie to be heard.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moab is made desolate, her litle ones haue cryed out.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass on the second day after he had smitten Godolias, and no man knew of it,
English Revised Version
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moab is defoulid, telle ye cry to litil children therof.
Update Bible Version
Moab is destroyed; They caused a cry to be heard as far as Zoar.
Webster's Bible Translation
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
New English Translation
"Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress.
New King James Version
"Moab is destroyed;Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard; [fn]
New Living Translation
All Moab is destroyed. Her little ones will cry out.
New Life Bible
Moab is destroyed. The cry of her little ones is heard.
New Revised Standard
"Moab is destroyed!" her little ones cry out.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moab is broken: Her little ones, have caused to be heard an outcry.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.
Revised Standard Version
Moab is destroyed; a cry is heard as far as Zo'ar.
Young's Literal Translation
Destroyed hath been Moab, Caused a cry to be heard have her little ones.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Moab is broken, Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.

Contextual Overview

1 Of Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. 2 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. 3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. 5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. 7 For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together. 8 And the destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Jehovah hath spoken. 9 Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein. 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Moab: This prophecy against Moab, as well as the following ones concerning Ammon, Edom, and the neighbouring countries, seem to have been fulfilled during the long siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. Josephus places these events five years after the destruction of Jerusalem. Numbers 21:27-30

her: Esther 8:11, Psalms 137:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:7 - that Egypt Jeremiah 20:16 - let him Jeremiah 48:15 - gone

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:
Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:13
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 22:17
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 26:4
and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Genesis 28:3
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;
Genesis 32:12
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 35:11
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
Genesis 46:3
And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
Genesis 47:27
And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gat them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moab 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. The Targum interprets it, her governors; and so Jarchi, who thinks they are so called, because they are lesser than kings. Kimchi and Ben Melech suggest, that these are called so by way of contempt. The word "tzeir" signifies both "little" and "great", as the learned Pocock h has abundantly proved.

g De locis Heb. fol. 87. H. & 93. B. h Not. Miscell. in Port. Mosis, p. 17, 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Moab - Probably the city elsewhere called Ar-Moab. See the Septuagint of this verse.


 
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