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Jeremiah 48:26
26“Let him stagger and fall like a drunkard, for he has rebelled against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, ridiculed by all.
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— all the towns of Moab, far and near. 25“The strength of Moab has ended. His arm has been broken,” says the Lord. “Let him stagger and fall like a drunkard, for he has rebelled against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, ridiculed by all. 27Did you not ridicule the people of Israel? Were they caught in the company of thieves that you should despise them as you do? 28“You people of Moab, flee from your towns and live in the caves. Hide like doves that nest in the clefts of the rocks.
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 13:13“Then tell them, ‘No, this is what the Lord means: I will fill everyone in this land with drunkenness—from the king sitting on David’s throne to the priests and the prophets, right down to the common people of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 25:15This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
- Jeremiah 51:7Babylon has been a gold cup in the Lord’s hands, a cup that made the whole earth drunk. The nations drank Babylon’s wine, and it drove them all mad.
- Psalms 60:3You have been very hard on us, making us drink wine that sent us reeling.
- Psalms 75:8For the Lord holds a cup in his hand that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours out the wine in judgment, and all the wicked must drink it, draining it to the dregs.
- Isaiah 29:9Are you amazed and incredulous? Don’t you believe it? Then go ahead and be blind. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from liquor!
- Isaiah 51:17Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem! You have drunk the cup of the Lord’s fury. You have drunk the cup of terror, tipping out its last drops.
- Isaiah 63:6I crushed the nations in my anger and made them stagger and fall to the ground, spilling their blood upon the earth.”
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
- Lamentations 4:21Are you rejoicing in the land of Uz, O people of Edom? But you, too, must drink from the cup of the Lord’s anger. You, too, will be stripped naked in your drunkenness.
- Ezekiel 23:31Because you have followed in your sister’s footsteps, I will force you to drink the same cup of terror she drank.
- Nahum 3:11And you, Nineveh, will also stagger like a drunkard. You will hide for fear of the attacking enemy.
- Revelation 16:19The great city of Babylon split into three sections, and the cities of many nations fell into heaps of rubble. So God remembered all of Babylon’s sins, and he made her drink the cup that was filled with the wine of his fierce wrath.
- Jeremiah 48:42Moab will no longer be a nation, for it has boasted against the Lord.
- Exodus 5:2“Is that so?” retorted Pharaoh. “And who is the Lord? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”
- Exodus 9:17But you still lord it over my people and refuse to let them go.
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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