Jeremiah 48:21

THE MESSAGE

"My judgment will come to the plateau cities: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath; on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim; on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon; on Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of Moab, far and near.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Judgment has come to the land of the plateau—to Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,

Hebrew Names Version
Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Yahtzah, and on Mefa`at,

King James Version
And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

English Standard Version
"Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,

New American Standard Bible
"Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, Jahzah, and against Mephaath,

New Century Version
People on the high plain have been punished. Judgment has come to these towns: Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath;

Amplified Bible
"Judgment has come on [the land of] the plain—upon Holon, Jahzah, and against Mephaath,

World English Bible
Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And iudgement is come vpon the plaine countrey, vpon Holon and vpon Iahazah, and vpon Mephaath,

Legacy Standard Bible
"Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, upon Jahzah, and against Mephaath,

Berean Standard Bible
Judgment has come upon the high plain-upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

Contemporary English Version
I will punish every town that belongs to Moab, but especially Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,

Complete Jewish Bible
Judgment has come on the Plain — on Holon, Yachtzah, Mefa‘at,

Darby Translation
And judgment is come upon the country of the plateau; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath;

Easy-to-Read Version
People on the high plain have been punished. Judgment has come to the towns of Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath.

George Lamsa Translation
And judgment has come upon the land of Mashor, upon Holon and upon Jahazah and upon Mephaath

Good News Translation
"Judgment has come on the cities of the plateau: on Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,

Lexham English Bible
Judgment has also come to the land of the plain, to Holon, and to Jahaz, and on Mephaath,

Literal Translation
And judgment has come to the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahazah, and on Mephaath,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And mysery shall come vpon the playne londe: Namely, vpo holon, and Iaza: vpon Mephat

American Standard Version
And judgment is come upon the plain country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath,

Bible in Basic English
And punishment has come on the lowlands; on Holon and Jahzah, and on Mephaath,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And judgment is come upon the country of the Plain; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath;

King James Version (1611)
And iudgement is come vpon the plaine countrey, vpon Holon, and vpon Iahazah, and vpon Mephaath,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For iudgement shall come vpon the playne lande [namely] vpon Holon, and Iahzah, and vpon Mephaath.

English Revised Version
And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And doom is comun to the lond of the feeld, on Elon, and on Jesa, and on Mephat, and on Dibon,

Update Bible Version
And judgment has come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath,

Webster's Bible Translation
And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

New English Translation
"Judgment will come on the cities on the high plain: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

New King James Version
"And judgment has come on the plain country: On Holon and Jahzah and Mephaath,

New Living Translation
Judgment has been poured out on the towns of the plateau— on Holon and Jahaz and Mephaath,

New Life Bible
Punishment has come upon the plain, against Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,

New Revised Standard
Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, judgment, hath come Upon the country of the table-land, - Upon Holon, and Upon Jazer and Upon Mephaath;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon, and upon Jasa, and upon Mephaath.

Revised Standard Version
"Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Meph'a-ath,

Young's Literal Translation
And judgment hath come in unto the land of the plain -- unto Holon, And unto Jahazah, and on Mephaath,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, Jahzah and against Mephaath,

Contextual Overview

¹⁸"Come down from your high horse, pampered beauty of Dibon. Sit in dog dung. The destroyer of Moab will come against you. He'll wreck your safe, secure houses. Stand on the roadside, pampered women of Aroer. Interview the refugees who are running away. Ask them, ‘What's happened? And why?' Moab will be an embarrassing memory, nothing left of the place. Wail and weep your eyes out! Tell the bad news along the Arnon river. Tell the world that Moab is no more. ²¹"My judgment will come to the plateau cities: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath; on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim; on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon; on Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of Moab, far and near. ²⁵ "Moab's link to power is severed. Moab's arm is broken." God 's Decree. ²⁶"Turn Moab into a drunken sot, drunk on the wine of my wrath, a dung-faced drunk, filling the country with vomit—Moab a falling-down drunk, a joke in bad taste. Wasn't it you, Moab, who made crude jokes over Israel? And when they were caught in bad company, didn't you cluck and gossip and snicker? ²⁸ "Leave town! Leave! Look for a home in the cliffs, you who grew up in Moab. Try living like a dove who nests high in the river gorge. ²⁹"We've all heard of Moab's pride, that legendary pride, The strutting, bullying, puffed-up pride, the insufferable arrogance. I know"— God 's Decree—"his rooster-crowing pride, the inflated claims, the sheer nothingness of Moab. But I will weep for Moab, yes, I will mourn for the people of Moab. I will even mourn for the people of Kir-heres. I'll weep for the grapevines of Sibmah and join Jazer in her weeping— Grapevines that once reached the Dead Sea with tendrils as far as Jazer. Your summer fruit and your bursting grapes will be looted by brutal plunderers, Lush Moab stripped of song and laughter. And yes, I'll shut down the winepresses, stop all the shouts and hurrahs of harvest. ³⁴ "Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, and the people in Jahaz will hear the cries. They will hear them all the way from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up. ³⁵ "I will put a stop in Moab"— God 's Decree—"to all hiking to the high places to offer burnt sacrifices to the gods. ³⁶ "My heart moans for Moab, for the men of Kir-heres, like soft flute sounds carried by the wind. They've lost it all. They've got nothing. ³⁷ "Everywhere you look are signs of mourning: heads shaved, beards cut, Hands scratched and bleeding, clothes ripped and torn.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the plain: Jeremiah 48:8, Ezekiel 25:9, Zephaniah 2:9

Jahazah: Joshua 13:18, Jahaza, Joshua 21:36, Joshua 21:37, Isaiah 15:4, Jahaz

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:16 - General 1 Chronicles 6:78 - Jahzah Jeremiah 48:34 - Jahaz

Cross-References

Genesis 37:1
Meanwhile Jacob had settled down where his father had lived, the land of Canaan.

Genesis 48:1
Some time after this conversation, Joseph was told, "Your father is ill." He took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and went to Jacob. When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come," he roused himself and sat up in bed.

Genesis 48:3
Jacob said to Joseph, "The Strong God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. He said, ‘I'm going to make you prosperous and numerous, turn you into a congregation of tribes; and I'll turn this land over to your children coming after you as a permanent inheritance.' I'm adopting your two sons who were born to you here in Egypt before I joined you; they have equal status with Reuben and Simeon. But any children born after them are yours; they will come after their brothers in matters of inheritance. I want it this way because, as I was returning from Paddan, your mother Rachel, to my deep sorrow, died as we were on our way through Canaan when we were only a short distance from Ephrath, now called Bethlehem."

Genesis 50:24
At the end, Joseph said to his brothers, "I am ready to die. God will most certainly pay you a visit and take you out of this land and back to the land he so solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Joshua 3:7
God said to Joshua, "This very day I will begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel. They'll see for themselves that I'm with you in the same way that I was with Moses. You will command the priests who are carrying the Chest of the Covenant: ‘When you come to the edge of the Jordan's waters, stand there on the river bank.'"

Joshua 23:14
"As you can see, I'm about to go the way we all end up going. Know this with all your heart, with everything in you, that not one detail has failed of all the good things God , your God, promised you. It has all happened. Nothing's left undone—not so much as a word.

Psalms 18:46
Live, God ! Blessings from my Rock, my free and freeing God, towering! This God set things right for me and shut up the people who talked back. He rescued me from enemy anger, he pulled me from the grip of upstarts, He saved me from the bullies.

Acts 13:36
"David, of course, having completed the work God set out for him, has been in the grave, dust and ashes, a long time now. But the One God raised up—no dust and ashes for him! I want you to know, my very dear friends, that it is on account of this resurrected Jesus that the forgiveness of your sins can be promised. He accomplishes, in those who believe, everything that the Law of Moses could never make good on. But everyone who believes in this raised-up Jesus is declared good and right and whole before God.

2 Timothy 4:6
You take over. I'm about to die, my life an offering on God's altar. This is the only race worth running. I've run hard right to the finish, believed all the way. All that's left now is the shouting—God's applause! Depend on it, he's an honest judge. He'll do right not only by me, but by everyone eager for his coming.

Hebrews 7:8
Or look at it this way: We pay our tithes to priests who die, but Abraham paid tithes to a priest who, the Scripture says, "lives." Ultimately you could even say that since Levi descended from Abraham, who paid tithes to Melchizedek, when we pay tithes to the priestly tribe of Levi they end up with Melchizedek.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And judgment is come upon the plain country,.... Of Moab, which was for the most part such, especially that which lay near Arnon; the judgment of God's vengeance, punishment for sin, by the hand of the Chaldeans. The Targum is,

"they that execute vengeance are come:''

upon Holon; a city of Moab; of which see Joshua 15:51; it had its name perhaps from the sandy ground on which it stood. Grotius takes it to be the Alabana of Ptolemy:

and upon Jahazah: the same with Jahaz, Joshua 15:51- :; reckoned by Grotius to be the Jadu of Ptolemy; see Joshua 13:18;

and upon Mephaath; of which see Joshua 13:18; said by Grotius to be the Maipha of Ptolemy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Holon - This place apparently took its name from caverns in its neighborhood.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 48:21. Upon Holon, &c. — All these were cities of the Moabites, but several of them are mentioned in no other place.