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Jeremiah 48:25
25Moab has lost its power. Its strength has finished.’ That is what the Lord says.
Jeremiah 48:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)Moab’s horn is cut off; her arm is broken,” declares the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The horn of Moab is cut off, And his arm is broken,” says the Lord.
Context of Jeremiah 48:25
23Kiriathaim, Beth-Gamul and Beth-Meon, 24Kerioth and Bozrah. He will punish all the towns of Moab, near or far away. Moab has lost its power. Its strength has finished.’ That is what the Lord says. 26‘Moab has turned against me. So my anger will make him like a person who is drunk. He will lie down in the place where he has been sick. People will laugh at him. 27You people of Moab laughed at my people, the Israelites. Why did you insult them? You said that they were no better than a group of robbers.
Read all of Jeremiah 48Jeremiah 48:25 word by word
נִגְדְּעָה֙ קֶ֣רֶן מוֹאָ֔ב וּזְרֹע֖וֹ נִשְׁבָּ֑רָה נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:25
- Psalms 75:10You say, ‘I will destroy the power of wicked people. I will give strength to my righteous people.’
- Lamentations 2:3Yes, because he is very angry, he has destroyed Israel's whole army. He did not help them when they were fighting the enemy. He was like a big hot fire that burned Jacob's people from all sides.
- Daniel 7:8I was thinking about the horns and what they might mean. Then I saw another little horn that came up among the other ten horns. It pulled out three of those other horns to make room for itself. This little horn had eyes that looked like a man's eyes. It had a mouth that spoke proud words.
- Daniel 8:7I saw it as it attacked the sheep. It was so angry that it hit the sheep very hard. It broke off the sheep's two horns. The sheep had no power to stop the goat. The goat knocked the sheep down to the ground and it stamped on the sheep. Nobody could save the sheep from the power of the goat.
- Zechariah 1:19And I asked the angel that talked with me, ‘What are these horns?’ Then the angel said to me, ‘These are the strong enemies of my people. They took my people out of Judah, out of Israel and out of Jerusalem.’
- Numbers 32:37The men in the tribe of Reuben built up again Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim.
- Job 22:9But you refused to help widows. You were cruel to children who have no family.
- Psalms 10:15Take hold of the arm of the wicked, evil man! Break it and take away his strength! Punish him for the bad things that he has done, so that he has to stop.
- Psalms 37:17The Lord keeps righteous people safe, but he will destroy the power of wicked people.
- Ezekiel 30:21‘Son of man, I have removed the strength of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. It is as if I have broken his arm and nobody has helped it to mend. He will never again have the power to fight battles.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken - His political and physical powers are no more.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25The horn - i. e., his pride (marginal reference); his arm, i. e., his strength Jeremiah 17:5.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. 21-25Eleven Moabite villages would soon learn that Moab's military strength was broken. This meant the villages had no defense against the advancing enemy.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. horn--the emblem of strength and sovereignty: it is the horned animal's means of offense and defense (Psa 75:5, 10; La 2:3).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
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