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Jeremiah 48:3

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation 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.
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!
Douay-Rheims Bible
A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, 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 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. 2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you. 3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! 4 Moab is destroyed; They caused a cry to be heard as far as Zoar. 5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping they shall go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like a juniper in the wilderness. 7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together. 8 And the destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken. 9 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein. 10 Cursed be he that does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he that keeps back 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 when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be perfect.
Genesis 28:3
And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples.
Genesis 48:6
And your issue, that you beget after them, shall be yours; they shall be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
Genesis 48:7
And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died to my sorrow in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
Genesis 48:9
And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray you, to me, and I will bless them.
Genesis 48:12
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis 48:19
And his father refused, and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: nevertheless his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Exodus 6:3
and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I wasn't known to them.
Judges 1:23
And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el. (Now the name of the city formerly was Luz.)
Hosea 12:4
yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him at Beth-el, 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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