Jeremiah 48:27

Jeremiah 48:27 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
• New International Version (NIV)Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
• New King James Version (NKJV)For was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him, You shake your head in scorn.

Context of Jeremiah 48:27

25The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD. 26“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock. Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head. 28Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave. 29We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.

Jeremiah 48:27 word by word

וְאִ֣ם׀ ל֣וֹא הַשְּׂחֹ֗ק הָיָ֤ה לְךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־בְּגַנָּבִ֖ים נִמְצָ֑א כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֧י דְבָרֶ֥יךָ בּ֖וֹ תִּתְנוֹדָֽד׃Read the interlinear

• ·אִם'im · if: surely yesH518
• Wasהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• notלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• object of ridiculeשְׂחֹקώechôq ώechôq · laughterH7814
• Was he ever foundמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• ·גַּנָּבgannâb · thiefH1590
• Forכִּיkîy · forH3588
• wheneverדַּיday · sufficiencyH1767
• you speak of himדָּבָרdâbâr · word: speakingH1697
• you shake your headנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:27

• Psalms 44:13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
• Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
• Proverbs 24:17Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
• Ezekiel 25:8This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
• Ezekiel 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’
• Ezekiel 35:15As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
• Ezekiel 36:2This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’
• Obadiah 1:12But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
• Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
• Zephaniah 2:8“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
• Matthew 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
• Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
• Matthew 26:55At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.
• Matthew 27:38Two robbers were crucified with Him, one on His right and the other on His left.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27Was not Israel a derision unto thee? - Didst thou not mock my people, and say their God was no better than the gods of other nations? See Ezekiel 25:8. Was he found among thieves? - Did the Israelites come to rob and plunder you? Why then mock them, and rejoice at their desolation, when their enemies prevailed over them? This the Lord particularly resents.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27Was he found … - Or, “was he found among thieves that so often as thou speakest of him” thou waggest thy head? - in contempt for a fallen enemy.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. 26-27Moab hated Israel because they opposed the Lord.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. (Zep 2:8). a derision--The Hebrew has the article: referring to Jr 48:26, "Was not Israel (the whole nation) the object of derision to thee?" Therefore, Moab is to suffer as formerly for its exultation over the calamity (2Ki 17:6) of the ten tribes under the Assyrian Shalmaneser (Is 15:1-16:14), so now for its exultation over the fall of Judah, under the Chaldean Nebuchadnezzar. God takes up His people's cause as His own (Ob 10-13). was he ... among…Read the comment

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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