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

25The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken!” It is a declaration of Adonai. 26“Make him drunk, for he exalted himself against Adonai. So Moab will wallow in his vomit and also become a laughingstock. After all, Israel is a laughingstock to you. Was he ever found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him, you should wag the head? 28Inhabitants of Moab, leave the towns and dwell in crags— like a dove nesting in a cave’s mouth. 29We have heard of the pride of Moab —very proud he is—his haughtiness, his arrogance, his insolence, and his self-exalted 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 are selling Your people cheaply— not even getting a great price for them.
• Psalms 79:4We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
• Proverbs 24:17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, or let your heart be glad when he stumbles,
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass your way clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. “Is this the city of which they said, ‘The perfection of beauty,’ ‘the joy of the whole earth’?”
• Ezekiel 25:8Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘See, the house of Judah is like all the other nations!’
• Ezekiel 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha, she is shattered, the gateway of the peoples—she is turned over to me! I will be filled, now that she is laid waste!’
• Ezekiel 35:15As you rejoiced over inheriting the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir and all Edom—all of it. Then they will know that I am Adonai.”
• Ezekiel 36:2Thus says Adonai Elohim: “The enemy has said against you, ‘Aha! Even the ancient high places have become our possession!’
• Obadiah 1:12You should not look down on your brother on the day of his disaster, nor should you rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. You should not speak proudly in the day of their distress.
• Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I have fallen—I will arise. Though I sit in darkness, Adonai is my light.
• Zephaniah 2:8I have heard the taunts of Moab and the jeers of the children of Ammon, who taunted My people and expanded on their border.
• Matthew 7:2For with the judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
• Jeremiah 2:26As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel is shamed— they, their kings, their princes, their kohanim and their prophets.
• Matthew 26:55At that hour Yeshua said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, to capture Me as you would a revolutionary? Every day I sat teaching in the Temple, and you didn’t seize Me.
• Matthew 27:38Then two outlaws were executed with Him, one on the right and one 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