KJV King James Version
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Jeremiah 48:1
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.
WEB World English Bible
Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
ASV American Standard Version
Of Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Concerning Moab: ‘Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Woe 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.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 48
1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
2 [There shall be] no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from [being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
3 A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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לְמוֹאָ֡בH4124 · mo.avMoabכֹּֽה־H3541 · kohthusאָמַר֩H559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֨הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDצְבָא֜וֹתH6635 · tsa.vaarmyאֱלֹהֵ֣יH430 · e.lo.himGodיִשְׂרָאֵ֗לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelה֤וֹיH1945 · hoywoe!אֶל־H413 · elto(wards)נְבוֹ֙H5015 · ne.voNeboכִּ֣יH3588 · kiforשֻׁדָּ֔דָהH7703 · sha.dadto ruinהֹבִ֥ישָׁהH954 · bushbe ashamedנִלְכְּדָ֖הH3920 · la.khadto captureקִרְיָתָ֑יִםH7156 · qir.ya.ta.yimKiriathaimהֹבִ֥ישָׁהH954 · bushbe ashamedהַמִּשְׂגָּ֖בH4869 · mis.gavhigh refugeוָחָֽתָּה׃H2865 · cha.tatto to be dismayed
Cross-references
Jeremiah 48:22-23And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,Numbers 32:3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,Numbers 32:37-38And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,Isaiah 15:1-9The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;Ezekiel 25:8-11Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah [is] like unto all the heathen;Jeremiah 25:21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,Amos 2:1-2Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:Numbers 33:47And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.Numbers 24:17I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.Zephaniah 2:8-11I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified [themselves] against their border.Isaiah 27:3I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.Isaiah 25:10For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.2 Chronicles 20:10And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;Jeremiah 9:26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.Jeremiah 27:3And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;Genesis 19:37And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.
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