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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)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.
• 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.

Context of Jeremiah 48:15

13The people of Moab will be disappointed by their god Chemosh. They will be as disappointed as the people of Israel were when they put their trust in the calf god at Bethel. 14How can you men of Moab say, ‘We are heroes, men who are mighty in battle?’ Moab will be destroyed. Its towns will be invaded. Its finest young men will be slaughtered. I, the King, the Lord who rules over all, affirm it! 16Moab’s destruction is at hand. Disaster will come on it quickly. 17Mourn for that nation, all you nations living around it, all of you nations that know of its fame. Mourn and say, ‘Alas, its powerful influence has been broken! Its glory and power have been done away!’

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 will come against every town. Not one town will escape. The towns in the valley will be destroyed. The cities on the high plain will be laid waste. I, the Lord, have spoken!
• Isaiah 40:30Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble.
• Jeremiah 48:4“Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress.
• Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished.”
• Jeremiah 51:40“I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.”
• Isaiah 34:2For the Lord is angry at all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will annihilate them and slaughter them.
• Jeremiah 46:18I the King, whose name is the Lord who rules over all, swear this: I swear as surely as I live that a conqueror is coming. He will be as imposing as Mount Tabor is among the mountains, as Mount Carmel is against the backdrop of the sea.
• Jeremiah 51:57“I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her governors, leaders, and warriors. They will fall asleep forever and never wake up,” says the King whose name is the Lord who rules over all.
• Psalms 24:8Who is this majestic king? The Lord who is strong and mighty! The Lord who is mighty in battle!
• Psalms 47:2For the sovereign Lord is awe-inspiring; he is the great king who rules the whole earth!
• Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.
• Zechariah 14:9The Lord will then be king over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be seen as one with a single name.
• Malachi 1:14“There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
• Revelation 19:16He has a name written on his clothing and on his thigh: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
• James 5:4Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers 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