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Jeremiah 48:4

Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.

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

1Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled. 2There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.' You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you. 3A voice cries out from Horonaim, 'Devastation and great destruction!' 4Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.5For on the Ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction: 6'Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.' 7Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials. 8The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley also will be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said. 9Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them. 10Cursed be the one who is negligent in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

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
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Genesis 17:8
And to you and your descendants I will give the land of your sojourn-all the land of Canaan-as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."
Genesis 17:13
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Genesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
Genesis 32:12
But You have said, 'I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.'"
Genesis 35:11
And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation-even a company of nations-shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
Genesis 46:3
"I am God," He said, "the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
Genesis 47:27
Thus the Israelites settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and became fruitful and increased greatly in number.

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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