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

25Moab’s might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. I, the Lord, affirm it! 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. For 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. 29I have heard how proud the people of Moab are, I know how haughty they are. I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are, what a high opinion they have of themselves.

Jeremiah 48:27 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• For was not Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• a derisionשְׂחֹקώechôq ώechôq · laughterH7814
• unto thee? was he foundמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• among thievesגַּנָּבgannâb · thiefH1590
• for sinceדַּיday · sufficiencyH1767
• thou spakestדָּבָרdâbâr · word: speakingH1697
• of him, thou skippedstנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:27

• Psalms 44:13You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
• Psalms 79:4We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
• Proverbs 24:17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,
• Lamentations 2:15All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem. “Ha! Is this the city they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” פ (Pe)
• Ezekiel 25:8“This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Moab and Seir say, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations.”
• Ezekiel 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,’
• Ezekiel 35:15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you – you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom – all of it! Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”
• Ezekiel 36:2This is what the sovereign Lord says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our property!”’
• Obadiah 1:12You should not have gloated when your relatives suffered calamity. You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed. You should not have boasted when they suffered adversity.
• Micah 7:8My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
• Zephaniah 2:8“I have heard Moab’s taunts and the Ammonites’ insults. They taunted my people and verbally harassed those living in Judah.
• Matthew 7:2For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.
• Jeremiah 2:26Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught, so the people of Israel will suffer dishonor for what they have done. So will their kings and officials, their priests and their prophets.
• Matthew 26:55At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.
• Matthew 27:38Then two outlaws were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his 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

In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Confidence
• Espy
• Fear
• Horn
• Plant
• Gesture
• Head

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