New English Translation
Jeremiah 48:26
26“Moab has vaunted itself against me. So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath until he splashes around in his own vomit, until others treat him as a laughingstock.
Jeremiah 48:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
- New International Version (NIV)“Make her drunk, for she has defied the Lord. Let Moab wallow in her vomit; let her be an object of ridicule.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Make him drunk, Because he exalted himself against the Lord. Moab shall wallow in his vomit, And he shall also be in derision.
Context of Jeremiah 48:26
24on Kerioth and Bozrah. It will come on all the towns of Moab, both far and near. 25Moab’s might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. I, the Lord, affirm it! “Moab has vaunted itself against me. So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath until he splashes around in his own vomit, until others treat him as a laughingstock. 27For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, that you shook your head in contempt every time you talked about them? 28Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab. Go and live in the cliffs. Be like a dove that makes its nest high on the sides of a ravine.
Read all of Jeremiah 48Jeremiah 48:26 word by word
הַשְׁכִּירֻ֕הוּ כִּ֥י עַל־יְהוָ֖ה הִגְדִּ֑יל וְסָפַ֤ק מוֹאָב֙ בְּקִיא֔וֹ וְהָיָ֥ה לִשְׂחֹ֖ק גַּם־הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Make ye him drunkenשָׁכַרshâkar · be drunkH7937
- for he magnifiedגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431
- against the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
- also shall wallowסָפַקsâphaq ώâphaq · to slapH5606
- in his vomitקִיאqê' qîy' · vomitH6892
- and he also shall be in derisionשְׂחֹקώechôq ώechôq · laughterH7814
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:26
- Jeremiah 13:13Then tell them, ‘The Lord says, “I will soon fill all the people who live in this land with stupor. I will also fill the kings from David’s dynasty, the priests, the prophets, and the citizens of Jerusalem with stupor.
- Jeremiah 25:15So the Lord, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision. “Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.
- Jeremiah 51:7Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord’s hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. So they have all gone mad.
- Psalms 60:3You have made your people experience hard times; you have made us drink intoxicating wine.
- Psalms 75:8For the Lord holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”
- Isaiah 29:9You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.
- Isaiah 51:17Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you, which was full of his anger! You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine.
- Isaiah 63:6I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”
- Lamentations 3:15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. ו (Vav)
- Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad for now, O people of Edom, who reside in the land of Uz. But the cup of judgment will pass to you also; you will get drunk and take off your clothes. ת (Tav)
- Ezekiel 23:31You have followed the ways of your sister, so I will place her cup of judgment in your hand.
- Nahum 3:11You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.
- Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.
- Jeremiah 48:42Moab will be destroyed and no longer be a nation, because she has vaunted herself against the Lord.
- Exodus 5:2But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not release Israel!”
- Exodus 9:17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:26
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26Make ye him drunken - With the wine-cup of God‘s fury, until terror deprive him of his senses.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. 2626. drunken--(see on Jr 13:12; Jr 25:17). Intoxicated with the cup of divine wrath, so as to be in helpless distraction. magnified ... against ... Lord--boasted arrogantly against God's people, that whereas Israel was fallen, Moab remained flourishing. wallow in ... vomit--following up the image of a drunken man, that is, shall be so afflicted by God's wrath as to disgorge all his past pride, riches, and vainglory, and fall in his shameful abasement. he…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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