New American Standard Bible 2020
Jeremiah 48:20
20Moab has been put to shame, for it has been 1shattered. Wail and cry out; Declare by the 2Arnon That Moab has been destroyed.
Jeremiah 48:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
- New International Version (NIV)Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered. Wail and cry out! Announce by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Moab is shamed, for he is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered.
Context of Jeremiah 48:20
18Come down from your glory And sit on the parched ground, O daughter living in Dibon, For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, He has ruined your strongholds. 19Stand by the road and keep watch, You inhabitant of Aroer; Ask him who flees and her who escapes And say, ‘What has happened?’ Moab has been put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out; Declare by the Arnon That Moab has been destroyed. 21“Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, Jahzah, and against Mephaath, 22against Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
Read all of Jeremiah 48Jeremiah 48:20 word by word
הֹבִ֥ישׁ מוֹאָ֛ב כִּֽי־חַ֖תָּה הֵילִ֣ילוּ וּֽזְעָ֑קוּ הַגִּ֣ידוּ בְאַרְנ֔וֹן כִּ֥י שֻׁדַּ֖ד מוֹאָֽב׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:20
- Jeremiah 48:1Concerning Moab. This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed; Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured; The high stronghold has been put to shame and shattered.
- Isaiah 15:1The pronouncement concerning Moab: Certainly in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined; Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
- Isaiah 16:7Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail. You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.
- Numbers 21:13From there they journeyed and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
- Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer which is on the edge of the Valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the Lord our God turned it all over to us.
- Joshua 13:9from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon;
- Judges 11:18Then they went through the wilderness and around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
- Isaiah 16:2Then, like fluttering birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the crossing places of the Arnon.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Tell ye it in Arnon - Apprize the inhabitants there that the territories of Moab are invaded, and the country about to be destroyed, that they may provide for their own safety.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Or, “Moab is ashamed, because she (Dibon) is broken” by her fortifications being battered down.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. 20When people heard that Moab was in ruins, panic quickly spread in the Arnon Valley.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. Answer of the fleeing Moabites to the Ammonite inquirers (Jr 48:19; Is 16:2). He enumerates the Moabite cities at length, as it seemed so incredible that all should be so utterly ruined. Many of them were assigned to the Levites, while Israel stood. in Arnon--the north boundary between Moab and Ammon (Jr 48:19; Nu 21:13).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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