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Douay-Rheims Bible

Jeremiah 48:3

A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Horonaim;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Moabites;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Horonaim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heshbon;   Horonaim;   Kiriathaim;   Pisgah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Horonaim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Horonaim;   Madmen;   Moab, Moabites;   Obadiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Horonaim ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nebo;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon ammonites children of ammon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Horona'im;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Horonaim;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A voice cries out from Horonaim,“devastation and a crushing blow!”
Hebrew Names Version
The sound of a cry from Horonayim, desolation and great destruction!
King James Version
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
English Standard Version
"A voice! A cry from Horonaim, ‘Desolation and great destruction!'
New American Standard Bible
"The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, 'Devastation and great destruction!'
New Century Version
Listen to the cries from the town of Horonaim, cries of much confusion and destruction.
Amplified Bible
"The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, 'Desolation and great destruction!'
World English Bible
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
Geneva Bible (1587)
A voyce of crying shall be from Horonaim with desolation and great destruction.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,‘Devastation and great destruction!'
Berean Standard Bible
A voice cries out from Horonaim, 'Devastation and great destruction!'
Contemporary English Version
The people of Horonaim will cry for help, as their town is attacked and destroyed.
Complete Jewish Bible
An agonized cry from Horonayim, ruin, terrible devastation!
Darby Translation
A voice of crying from Horonaim; wasting and great destruction!
Easy-to-Read Version
Listen to the cries from Horonaim. They are cries of much confusion and destruction.
George Lamsa Translation
A sound of wailing is heard from Horonaim, plunder and great destruction.
Good News Translation
The people of Horonaim cry out, ‘Violence! Destruction!'
Lexham English Bible
The sound of a cry of distress arises from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction.
Literal Translation
a voice of crying from Horonaim, plundering and great ruin!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A voyce shall crie from Horonaim: With greate waistinge and destruction,
American Standard Version
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
Bible in Basic English
There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!
King James Version (1611)
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim; Spoiling & great destruction.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A voyce shall crye from Horonaim: Great wasting and destruction shall come vpon them,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.
English Revised Version
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A vois of cry fro Oronaym, distriynge, and greet sorewe.
Update Bible Version
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
Webster's Bible Translation
A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction.
New English Translation
Cries of anguish will arise in Horonaim, ‘Oh, the ruin and great destruction!'
New King James Version
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim: "Plundering and great destruction!'
New Living Translation
Listen to the cries from Horonaim, cries of devastation and great destruction.
New Life Bible
Listen, the sound of a cry from Horonaim, saying, ‘Laid waste and all destroyed!'
New Revised Standard
Hark! a cry from Horonaim, "Desolation and great destruction!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A voice of outcry, from Horonaim, - Wasting and great destruction!
Revised Standard Version
"Hark! a cry from Horona'im, 'Desolation and great destruction!'
Young's Literal Translation
A voice of a cry [is] from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, 'Devastation and great destruction!'

Contextual Overview

1 Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled. 2 There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee. 3 A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones. 5 For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction. 6 Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness. 7 For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together. 8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, for the Lord hath spoken: 9 Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited. 10 Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

voice: Jeremiah 4:20, Jeremiah 4:21, Jeremiah 47:2, Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 15:8, Isaiah 16:7-11, Isaiah 22:4

Horonaim: Jeremiah 48:5, Jeremiah 48:34, Isaiah 15:5

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 5:12 - the cry Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Jeremiah 20:16 - let him Jeremiah 51:54 - General Joel 1:12 - joy

Cross-References

Genesis 17:1
And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.
Genesis 28:3
And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.
Genesis 48:6
But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.
Genesis 48:7
For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.
Genesis 48:9
He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said: Bring them to me, that I may bless them.
Genesis 48:12
And when Joseph had taken them from his father’s lap, he bowed down with his face to the ground.
Genesis 48:19
But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations.
Exodus 6:3
That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty: and my name ADONAI I did not shew them.
Judges 1:23
For when they were besieging the city, which before was called Luza,
Hosea 12:4
And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim,.... Another city of Moab. The word is of the dual number; and, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, there were two Horons, the upper and the lower; of this place :-; this also should be destroyed; and so a cry of the inhabitants of it should be heard out of it:

spoiling, and great destruction; because the city was spoiled, and a great destruction made in the inhabitants and riches of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Omit shall be. “Spoiling and great destruction,” literally breaking, is the cry heard from Horonaim Isaiah 15:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 48:3. Horonaim — Another city of Moab, near to Luhith. At this latter place the hill country of Moab commenced. "It is a place," says Dahler, "situated upon a height between Areopolis and Zoar."


 
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