Jeremiah 48:15

Jeremiah 48:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
• New International Version (NIV)Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded; her finest young men will go down in the slaughter,” declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Moab is plundered and gone up from her cities; Her chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, Whose name is the Lord of hosts.
• New Living Translation (NLT)But now Moab and his towns will be destroyed. His most promising youth are doomed to slaughter,” says the King, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Context of Jeremiah 48:15

13Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. 14"How do you say, 'We are heroes and mighty men of war'? The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts. 16The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly. 17Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all who know his name; say, 'How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.'

Jeremiah 48:15 word by word

שֻׁדַּ֤ד מוֹאָב֙ וְעָרֶ֣יהָ עָלָ֔ה וּמִבְחַ֥ר בַּֽחוּרָ֖יו יָרְד֣וּ לַטָּ֑בַח נְאֻ֨ם־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
• is spoiledשָׁדַדshâdad · to ruinH7703
• and gone upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• her citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• and his chosenמִבְחָרmibchâr · bestH4005
• young menבָּחוּרbâchûr bâchûr · youthH970
• are gone downיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• to the slaughterטֶ֫בַחţebach · slaughterH2874
• saithנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
• the Kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• whose nameשֵׁםshêm · nameH8034
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• of hostsצָבָאtsâbâ' tsebâ'âh · HostsH6635

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:15

• Jeremiah 48:8The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord has spoken.
• Isaiah 40:30Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
• Jeremiah 48:4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry.
• Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
• Jeremiah 51:40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.
• Isaiah 34:2For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
• Jeremiah 46:18"As I live, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.
• Jeremiah 51:57I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
• Psalms 24:8Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle!
• Psalms 47:2For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.
• Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
• Zechariah 14:9And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
• Malachi 1:14Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
• Revelation 19:16On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
• James 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:15

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Rather, “Moab is spoiled,” and her cities have gone up, i. e., in smoke, have been burned Joshua 8:20-21. Others render, “The waster of Moab and of her towns is coming up to the attack, and her chosen youths are gone down to the slaughter.”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. 1515. gone up ... gone down--in antithesis. out of her cities--Rather, "Moab ... and her cities are gone up," namely, pass away in the ascending smoke of their conflagration (Jos 8:20, 21; Jud 20:40). When this took place, the young warriors would go down from the burning citadels only to meet their own slaughter [Grotius]. English Version is somewhat favored by the fact that "gone out" is singular, and "cities" plural. The antithesis favors Grotius.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