Jeremiah 48:46

Jeremiah 48:46 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
• New International Version (NIV)Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed; your sons are taken into exile and your daughters into captivity.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish; For your sons have been taken captive, And your daughters captive.

Context of Jeremiah 48:46

44“The one who flees from the terror Will fall into the pit, And the one who gets up out of the pit Will be taken and caught in the trap; For I shall bring upon it, even upon Moab, The year of their punishment,” says the Lord. 45“In the shadow of Heshbon The fugitives stand powerless [helpless and without strength], For a fire has gone out from Heshbon, A flame from the midst of Sihon; It has destroyed the forehead of Moab And the crowns of the heads of [the arrogant Moabites] the ones in tumult. Woe (judgment is coming) to you, O Moab! The people of [the pagan god called] Chemosh have perished; For your sons have been taken away captive And your daughters into captivity. 47Yet I will return the captives and restore the fortunes of Moab In the latter days,” says the Lord. Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

Jeremiah 48:46 word by word

אוֹי־לְךָ֣ מוֹאָ֔ב אָבַ֖ד עַם־כְּמ֑וֹשׁ כִּֽי־לֻקְּח֤וּ בָנֶ֙יךָ֙ בַּשֶּׁ֔בִי וּבְנֹתֶ֖יךָ בַּשִּׁבְיָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Woeאוֹי'ôy · woe!H188
• be unto thee, O Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
• the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• of Chemoshכְּמוֹשׁkemôsh kemîysh · ChemoshH3645
• perishethאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
• for thy sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• are takenלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• captivesשְׁבִיshebîy · captivityH7628
• and thy daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
• captivesשִׁבְיָהshibyâh · captiveH7633

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:46

• Numbers 21:29Woe (judgment is coming) to you, Moab! You are destroyed, O people of [the god] Chemosh! Moab has given his sons as fugitives [that is, survivors of battle], And his daughters into captivity To Sihon king of the Amorites.
• Jeremiah 48:7For because you have trusted in your works [your hand-made idols] and in your treasures [instead of in God], Even you yourself will be captured; And Chemosh [your disgusting god cannot rescue you, but] will go away into exile [along with the fugitives] Together with his priests and his princes.
• Judges 11:24Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And everything that the Lord our God dispossessed before us, we will possess.
• 1 Kings 11:7Then Solomon built a high place for [worshiping] Chemosh the horror (detestable idol) of Moab, on the hill which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the horror (detestable idol) of the sons of Ammon.
• 2 Kings 23:13The king desecrated the high places which were opposite [east of] Jerusalem, which were on the right (south) of the mount of corruption which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the repulsiveness of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the repulsiveness of Moab, and for Milcom the repulsiveness of the sons (descendants) of Ammon.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:46

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 46The people of Chemosh - The Moabites, who worshipped Chemosh as their supreme god.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-47Verses 14-47 . The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-47Moab, one of two nations descended from Abraham’s nephew Lot (Genesis 19:36–38), was the next nation judged in the Lord’s courtroom (compare Isaiah 15–16). Moab’s land was between the Arnon River and the Zered Brook, east of the Dead Sea. At that time, the Moabites felt confident because they were mostly safe from Babylonian military power. However, the Lord found the Moabites to be greedy and cruel, and their worship was violent and indulgent.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4646. Copied from Nu 21:29.Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 48:46

• Chemosh

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 48

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings