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Legacy Standard Bible

Jeremiah 48:4

Moab is broken;Her little ones have made their cry of distress 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.
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.
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. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,"Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed;Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and shattered. 2There is praise for Moab no longer;In Heshbon they have devised calamity against her:‘Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!'You too, Madmen, will be silenced;The sword will follow after you. 3The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,‘Devastation and great destruction!' 4Moab is broken;Her little ones have made their cry of distress heard. 5For by the ascent of LuhithThey will ascend with continual weeping;For at the descent of HoronaimThey have heard the distressed cry of destruction. 6Flee, escape with your lives,That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness. 7For because of your trust in your own works and treasures,Even you yourself will be captured;And Chemosh will go off into exileTogether with his priests and his princes. 8A destroyer will come to every city,So that no city will escape;The valley also will perish,And the plateau will be destroyed,As Yahweh has said. 9Give wings to Moab,For she will flee away;And her cities will become a desolation,Without inhabitants in them. 10Cursed be the one who does the work of Yahweh with a slack hand,And cursed be the one who restrains 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 you a great nation,And I will bless you,And make your name great;And so you shall be a blessing;
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."
Genesis 17:13
A servant who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised; thus shall My covenant be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 22:17
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 26:4
And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and I will give your seed all these lands; and by your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become an assembly of peoples.
Genesis 32:12
For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.'"
Genesis 35:11
God also said to him,"I am God Almighty;Be fruitful and multiply;A nation and an assembly of nations shall come from you,And kings shall come forth from your loins.
Genesis 46:3
And He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.
Genesis 47:27
Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in Goshen, and they took possession of property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.

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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