Jeremiah 48:3

Young's Literal Translation

A voice of a cry [is] from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction.

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!

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!'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, 'Devastation and great destruction!'

Contextual Overview

¹ Concerning Moab: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Wo unto Nebo, for it is spoiled, Put to shame, captured hath been Kiriathaim, Put to shame hath been the high tower, Yea, it hath been broken down. ² There is no more praise of Moab, In Heshbon they devised against it evil: Come, and we cut it off from [being] a nation, Also, O Madmen, thou art cut off, After thee goeth a sword. ³ A voice of a cry [is] from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction. ⁴ Destroyed hath been Moab, Caused a cry to be heard have her little ones. ⁵ For the ascent of Luhith with weeping, Go up doth weeping, For in the descent of Horonaim Adversaries a cry of desolation have heard. ⁶ Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness. ⁷ For, because of thy trusting in thy works, And in thy treasures, even thou art captured, And gone out hath Chemosh in a removal, His priests and his heads together. ⁸ And come in doth a spoiler unto every city, And no city doth escape, And perished hath the valley, And destroyed been the plain, as Jehovah said. ⁹ Give wings to Moab, for she utterly goeth out, And her cities are for a desolation, Without an inhabitant in them. ¹⁰ Cursed [is] he who is doing the work of Jehovah slothfully, And cursed [is] he Who is withholding 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 Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I [am] God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

Genesis 28:3
and God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples;

Genesis 48:6
and thy family which thou hast begotten after them are thine; by the name of their brethren they are called in their inheritance.

Genesis 48:7
`And I -- in my coming in from Padan-[Aram] Rachel hath died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, while yet a kibrath of land to enter Ephrata, and I bury her there in the way of Ephrata, which [is] Bethlehem.'

Genesis 48:9
and Joseph saith unto his father, `They [are] my sons, whom God hath given to me in this [place];' and he saith, `Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I bless them.'

Genesis 48:12
And Joseph bringeth them out from between his knees, and boweth himself on his face to the earth;

Genesis 48:19
And his father refuseth, and saith, `I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;'

Exodus 6:3
and I appear unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; as to My name Jehovah, I have not been known to them;

Judges 1:23
and the house of Joseph cause [men] to spy about Beth-El (and the name of the city formerly is Luz),

Hosea 12:4
Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh [by] weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak 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."