Jeremiah 48:27

Jeremiah 48:27 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
• New International Version (NIV)Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
• New King James Version (NKJV)For was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him, You shake your head in scorn.

Context of Jeremiah 48:27

25The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm broken,” declares the Lord. 26“Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock. Now was Israel not a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For whenever you speak about him you shake your head in scorn. 28Leave the cities and live among the rocky cliffs, You inhabitants of Moab, And be like a dove that nests Beyond the mouth of the chasm. 29We have heard of the pride of Moab--he is very proud-- Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance, and his self-exaltation.

Jeremiah 48:27 word by word

וְאִ֣ם׀ ל֣וֹא הַשְּׂחֹ֗ק הָיָ֤ה לְךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־בְּגַנָּבִ֖ים נִמְצָ֑א כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֧י דְבָרֶ֥יךָ בּ֖וֹ תִּתְנוֹדָֽד׃Read the interlinear

• Now was Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• laughingstockשְׂחֹקώechôq ώechôq · laughterH7814
• to you? Orאִם'im · ifH518
• caughtמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• among thievesגַּנָּבgannâb · thiefH1590
• For wheneverמִן־min minnîy minnêy · fromH4480
• For wheneverדַּיday · sufficiencyH1767
• you speakדָּבָרdâbâr · word: speakingH1697
• shakeנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:27

• Psalms 44:13You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, Of scoffing and ridicule to those around us.
• Psalms 79:4We have become a disgrace before our neighbors, An object of derision and ridicule to those around us.
• Proverbs 24:17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass along the way Clap their hands in ridicule at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city of which they said, ‘Perfect in beauty, A joy to all the earth’?”
• Ezekiel 25:8‘The Lord God says this: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,’
• Ezekiel 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said in regard to Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’
• Ezekiel 35:15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’
• Ezekiel 36:2This is what the Lord God says: “Since the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,’
• Obadiah 1:12Do not gloat over your brother’s day, The day of his misfortune. And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah On the day of their destruction; Yes, do not boast On the day of their distress.
• Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me, enemy of mine. Though I fall I will rise; Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.
• Zephaniah 2:8“I have heard the taunting of Moab And the abusive speech of the sons of Ammon, With which they have taunted My people And boasted against their territory.
• Matthew 7:2For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.
• Jeremiah 2:26“Like the shame of a thief when he is discovered, So the house of Israel is shamed; They, their kings, their leaders, Their priests, and their prophets,
• Matthew 26:55At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would against a man inciting a revolt? Every day I used to sit within the temple grounds teaching, and you did not arrest Me.
• Matthew 27:38At that time two rebels were being crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27Was not Israel a derision unto thee? - Didst thou not mock my people, and say their God was no better than the gods of other nations? See Ezekiel 25:8. Was he found among thieves? - Did the Israelites come to rob and plunder you? Why then mock them, and rejoice at their desolation, when their enemies prevailed over them? This the Lord particularly resents.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27Was he found … - Or, “was he found among thieves that so often as thou speakest of him” thou waggest thy head? - in contempt for a fallen enemy.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. 26-27Moab hated Israel because they opposed the Lord.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. (Zep 2:8). a derision--The Hebrew has the article: referring to Jr 48:26, "Was not Israel (the whole nation) the object of derision to thee?" Therefore, Moab is to suffer as formerly for its exultation over the calamity (2Ki 17:6) of the ten tribes under the Assyrian Shalmaneser (Is 15:1-16:14), so now for its exultation over the fall of Judah, under the Chaldean Nebuchadnezzar. God takes up His people's cause as His own (Ob 10-13). was he ... among…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