Jeremiah 48:17

Jeremiah 48:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!
• New International Version (NIV)Mourn for her, all who live around her, all who know her fame; say, ‘How broken is the mighty scepter, how broken the glorious staff!’
• English Standard Version (ESV)Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all who know his name; say, 'How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)Bemoan him, all you who are around him; And all you who know his name, Say, ‘How the strong staff is broken, The beautiful rod!’

Context of Jeremiah 48:17

15I am the King, the Lord Almighty, and I tell you this: The enemy will soon destroy Moab and its cities. They will kill its strongest young men. 16Moab will soon come to an end. Terrible trouble will quickly destroy it. You nations that live around Moab, you know how famous it has been. But now you must weep for it. Say, “Moab's royal power is finished! They no longer have great power to rule!” 18You people who live in Dibon must stop being proud. Come down from the places where people give you honour. Sit on the ground in the dirt. Moab's cruel enemy has arrived. They will cause your strong buildings to become heaps of stones. 19You people who live in Aroer, stand beside the road and watch. Ask the people who are running away what has happened.

Jeremiah 48:17 word by word

נֻ֤דוּ לוֹ֙ כָּל־סְבִיבָ֔יו וְכֹ֖ל יֹדְעֵ֣י שְׁמ֑וֹ אִמְר֗וּ אֵיכָ֤ה נִשְׁבַּר֙ מַטֵּה־עֹ֔ז מַקֵּ֖ל תִּפְאָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• All ye that are aboutסָבִיבsâbîyb sebîybâh · aroundH5439
• him, bemoanנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110
• him; and all ye that knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• his nameשֵׁםshêm · nameH8034
• sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• How is the strongעֹז‛ôz ‛ôz · strengthH5797
• staffמַטֶּהmaţţeh maţţâh · tribe: rodH4294
• brokenשָׁבַרshâbar · to breakH7665
• the beautifulתִּפְאָרָהtiph'ârâh tiph'ereth · beautyH8597
• rodמַקֵּלmaqqêl maqqelâh · rodH4731

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:17

• Jeremiah 48:31So I am sad for Moab. I am crying for all their people. I weep for the people of Kir-Heres.
• Jeremiah 9:17The Lord Almighty said this: ‘Think about what is happening! Call the women who weep at funerals. Bring those women who know what to do.’
• Revelation 18:14The people who sold these things will say to the city, ‘You have now lost all the good things that you wanted so much. You have lost all those expensive things that made you beautiful. You will never have them again.’
• Jeremiah 48:39‘Yes, Moab will be like a broken jar. Its people will weep with loud voices. They will turn away because they are ashamed. All the nations around there will laugh at Moab. They will see the terrible trouble that it has received.’
• Isaiah 9:4They are happy because you have removed the power of their cruel enemies. They no longer have to carry a heavy load, as slaves. You have rescued them from their enemies, in the same way that you won against Midian's army.
• Isaiah 10:5It will be very bad for Assyria! I will use its army to punish my people, because I am angry with them. Assyria will be like a stick that I use to beat my people. That is how I will show them my anger.
• Isaiah 14:4Then you will laugh at the king of Babylon. You will say to him, ‘Now you cannot be cruel to us any more! Your power to cause trouble has finished!
• Ezekiel 19:11Its branches became big and strong. They were strong enough to make a ruler's stick of authority. The vine grew taller than all the other trees around it. Everyone could see that it was very tall and strong.
• Zechariah 11:10I took ‘Grace’ which was my first stick. I broke it into two pieces. The Lord's promise to his people finished.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17How is the strong staff broken - The scepter. The sovereignty of Moab is destroyed.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17The lamentation over Moab uttered by those “round about him,” i. e., the neighboring nations, and those “that know his name,” nations more remote, who know little more than that, there is such a people, takes the form of an elegy. The metaphorical expressions, “staff of strength,” and “rod” or “scepter of beauty,” indicate the union of power and splendor in the Moabite kingdom.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. 1717. bemoan--Not that Moab deserves pity, but this mode of expression pictures more vividly the grievousness of Moab's calamities. all ye that know his name--those at a greater distance whom the fame of Moab's "name" had reached, as distinguished from those "about him," that is, near. strong staff ... rod--Moab is so called as striking terror into and oppressing other peoples (Is 9:4; 14:4, 5); also because of its dignity and power (Psa 110:2; Zec 11:7).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