New King James Version
Jeremiah 48:46
46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish; For your sons have been taken captive, And your daughters captive.
Jeremiah 48:46 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
- New International Version (NIV)Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed; your sons are taken into exile and your daughters into captivity.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“What sorrow awaits you, O people of Moab! The people of the god Chemosh are destroyed! Your sons and your daughters have been taken away as captives.
Context of Jeremiah 48:46
44“He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, And he who gets out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For upon Moab, upon it I will bring The year of their punishment,” says the Lord. 45“Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon Because of exhaustion. But a fire shall come out of Heshbon, A flame from the midst of Sihon, And shall devour the brow of Moab, The crown of the head of the sons of tumult. Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish; For your sons have been taken captive, And your daughters captive. 47“Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab In the latter days,” says the Lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Read all of Jeremiah 48Jeremiah 48:46 word by word
אוֹי־לְךָ֣ מוֹאָ֔ב אָבַ֖ד עַם־כְּמ֑וֹשׁ כִּֽי־לֻקְּח֤וּ בָנֶ֙יךָ֙ בַּשֶּׁ֔בִי וּבְנֹתֶ֖יךָ בַּשִּׁבְיָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Woeאוֹי'ôy · woe!H188
- be unto thee, O Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
- the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- of Chemoshכְּמוֹשׁkemôsh kemîysh · ChemoshH3645
- perishethאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
- for thy sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
- are takenלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
- captivesשְׁבִיshebîy · captivityH7628
- and thy daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
- captivesשִׁבְיָהshibyâh · captiveH7633
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:46
- Numbers 21:29Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, To Sihon king of the Amorites.
- Jeremiah 48:7For because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, You also shall be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, His priests and his princes together.
- Judges 11:24Will you not possess whatever Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whatever the Lord our God takes possession of before us, we will possess.
- 1 Kings 11:7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.
- 2 Kings 23:13Then the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:46
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 46The people of Chemosh - The Moabites, who worshipped Chemosh as their supreme god.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. 4646. Copied from Nu 21:29.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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