Jeremiah 48:4

THE MESSAGE

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.

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

¹The Message on Moab from God -of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel: "Doom to Nebo! Leveled to the ground! Kiriathaim demeaned and defeated, The mighty fortress reduced to a molehill, Moab's glory—dust and ashes. Conspirators plot Heshbon's doom: ‘Come, let's wipe Moab off the map.' Dungface Dimon will loudly lament, as killing follows killing. Listen! A cry out of Horonaim: ‘Disaster—doom and more doom!' Moab will be shattered. Her cries will be heard clear down in Zoar. Up the ascent of Luhith climbers weep, And down the descent from Horonaim, cries of loss and devastation. Oh, run for your lives! Get out while you can! Survive by your wits in the wild! You trusted in thick walls and big money, yes? But it won't help you now. Your big god Chemosh will be hauled off, his priests and managers with him. A wrecker will wreck every city. Not a city will survive. The valley fields will be ruined, the plateau pastures destroyed, just as I told you. Cover the land of Moab with salt. Make sure nothing ever grows here again. Her towns will all be ghost towns. Nobody will ever live here again. Sloppy work in God 's name is cursed, and cursed all halfhearted use of the sword. ¹¹"Moab has always taken it easy— lazy as a dog in the sun, Never had to work for a living, never faced any trouble, Never had to grow up, never once worked up a sweat. But those days are a thing of the past. I'll put him to work at hard labor. That will wake him up to the world of hard knocks. That will smash his illusions. Moab will be as ashamed of god Chemosh as Israel was ashamed of her Bethel calf-gods, the calf-gods she thought were so great. For how long do you think you'll be saying, ‘We're tough. We can beat anyone anywhere'? The destruction of Moab has already begun. Her choice young soldiers are lying dead right now." The King's Decree— his full name, God -of-the-Angel-Armies. "Yes. Moab's doom is on countdown, disaster targeted and launched. Weep for Moab, friends and neighbors, all who know how famous he's been. Lament, ‘His mighty scepter snapped in two like a toothpick, that magnificent royal staff!'

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'll make you a great nation and bless you. I'll make you famous; you'll be a blessing. I'll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I'll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you."

Genesis 28:3
"And may The Strong God bless you and give you many, many children, a congregation of peoples; and pass on the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants so that you will get this land in which you live, this land God gave Abraham."

Genesis 35:11
God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants.

Genesis 46:3
God said, "I am the God of your father. Don't be afraid of going down to Egypt. I'm going to make you a great nation there. I'll go with you down to Egypt; I'll also bring you back here. And when you die, Joseph will be with you; with his own hand he'll close your eyes."

Genesis 47:27
And so Israel settled down in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property and flourished. They became a large company of people. Jacob lived in Egypt for seventeen years. In all, he lived 147 years.

Exodus 1:11
So they organized them into work-gangs and put them to hard labor under gang-foremen. They built the storage cities Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. But the harder the Egyptians worked them the more children the Israelites had—children everywhere! The Egyptians got so they couldn't stand the Israelites and treated them worse than ever, crushing them with slave labor. They made them miserable with hard labor—making bricks and mortar and back-breaking work in the fields. They piled on the work, crushing them under the cruel workload.

Deuteronomy 32:8
When the High God gave the nations their stake, gave them their place on Earth, He put each of the peoples within boundaries under the care of divine guardians. But God himself took charge of his people, took Jacob on as his personal concern.

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.