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

44Anyone who runs away from danger, will fall into a deep hole. And a trap will catch anyone who climbs out of the deep hole. Yes, the time will soon come when I will punish Moab's people. 45People will run away to Heshbon to be safe. They will be helpless as they stand outside its walls. Flames of fire will come out from Heshbon, the city where King Sihon once ruled. It will burn as far as Moab's borders. It will destroy those proud people who love to fight. It will be very bad for you, you people of Moab! The enemy will destroy you people who worship Chemosh. They will take away your sons and your daughters. They will take them as prisoners to a foreign land. 47But one day I will cause Moab to be strong again.’ That is what the Lord says. That is the end of the Lord's message against 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 21:29It will be very bad for you, people of Moab. Sihon has killed you people who worship the god Chemosh. Your god has let the king of the Amorites put you in prison.
• Jeremiah 48:7People of Moab, you trusted your riches and your skills to save you. Because of that, your enemies will catch you. They will even take your god Chemosh away as prisoner, together with his priests and officers.
• Judges 11:24You may take the land that your god Chemosh gives to you. We will live in the land that the Lord our God has given to us.
• 1 Kings 11:7On a hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a place to worship false gods. He worshipped Chemosh, the wicked god of the Moabite people, and Molech, the wicked god of the Ammonite people.
• 2 Kings 23:13King Josiah also destroyed the altars that were on the hills east of Jerusalem. Those altars were on the south side of Mount Trouble. King Solomon had built them to worship these false gods: Ashtoreth, a wicked female god that the people in Sidon worshipped. Chemosh, a wicked god that the people in Moab worshipped. Molech, the evil god that the people in Ammon worshipped.

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

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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