New English Translation
Jeremiah 48:20
20They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen! Wail and cry out in mourning! Announce along the Arnon River 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 place of honor; sit on the dry ground, you who live in Dibon. For the one who will destroy Moab will attack you; he will destroy your fortifications. 19You who live in Aroer, stand by the road and watch. Question the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping. Ask them, ‘What has happened?’ They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen! Wail and cry out in mourning! Announce along the Arnon River that Moab has been destroyed.’ 21“Judgment will come on the cities on the high plain: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath, 22on 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
Words taken from the KJV.
- Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
- is confoundedיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001
- for it is broken downחָתַתchâthath · to to be dismayedH2865
- howlיָלַלyâlal · to wailH3213
- and cryזָעַקzâ‛aq · to cry outH2199
- tellנָגַדnâgad · to tellH5046
- ye it in Arnonאַרְנוֹן'arnôn 'arnôn · ArnonH769
- is spoiledשָׁדַדshâdad · to ruinH7703
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:20
- Jeremiah 48:1The Lord God of Israel who rules over all spoke about Moab. “Sure to be judged is Nebo! Indeed, it will be destroyed! Kiriathaim will suffer disgrace. It will be captured! Its fortress will suffer disgrace. It will be torn down!
- Isaiah 15:1Here is a message about Moab: Indeed, in a night it is devastated, Ar of Moab is destroyed! Indeed, in a night it is devastated, Kir of Moab is destroyed!
- Isaiah 16:7So Moab wails over its demise – they all wail! Completely devastated, they moan about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.
- Numbers 21:13From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends from the regions of the Amorites, for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
- Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us.
- Joshua 13:9Their territory started from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley), included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba as far as Dibon,
- Judges 11:18Then Israel went through the desert and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; they did not go through Moabite territory (the Arnon was Moab’s border).
- Isaiah 16:2At the fords of the Arnon the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest.
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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