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 Living Translation (NLT)Did you not ridicule the people of Israel? Were they caught in the company of thieves that you should despise them as you do?

Context of Jeremiah 48:27

25The horn of Moab is cut off, And his arm is broken,” says the Lord. 26“Make him drunk, Because he exalted himself against the Lord. Moab shall wallow in his vomit, And he shall also be in derision. 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. 28You who dwell in Moab, Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, And be like the dove which makes her nest In the sides of the cave’s mouth. 29“We have heard the pride of Moab (He is exceedingly proud), Of his loftiness and arrogance and pride, And of the haughtiness of his heart.”

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 make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
• Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us.
• Proverbs 24:17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth’?”
• Ezekiel 25:8‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Look! The house of Judah is like all the nations,’
• Ezekiel 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken who was the gateway of the peoples; now she is turned over to me; I shall be filled; she is laid waste.’
• Ezekiel 35:15As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom—all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’
• Ezekiel 36:2Thus says the Lord God: “Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’ ” ’
• Obadiah 1:12“But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress.
• Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The Lord will be a light to me.
• Zephaniah 2:8“I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the insults of the people of Ammon, With which they have reproached My people, And made arrogant threats against their borders.
• Matthew 7:2For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
• Jeremiah 2:26“As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So is the house of Israel ashamed; They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets,
• Matthew 26:55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to take Me? I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not seize Me.
• Matthew 27:38Then two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and another 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

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