Jeremiah 48:2 “There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil agains…”

Jeremiah 48:2

There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

World English Bible

The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.

American Standard Version

The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Moab shall boast no more of Heshbon: for they haue deuised euill against it. Come, and let vs destroy it, that it be no more a nation: also thou shalt be destroyed, O Madmen, and the sworde shall pursue thee.

Darby Translation

Moab's praise is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from [being] a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be cut down; the sword shall pursue thee.

Young's Literal Translation

There is no more praise of Moab, In Heshbon they devised against it evil: Come, and we cut it off from [being] a nation, Also, O Madmen, thou art cut off, After thee goeth a sword.

Bible in Basic English

The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.

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Cross references

“no more”

Isaiah 16:14 Jeremiah 48:17

Isaiah 16:14 · BSB

And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

Jeremiah 48:17 · BSB

Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered— the glorious staff!

“Heshbon”

Numbers 32:37 Numbers 21:25–30 Isaiah 15:5 Jeremiah 48:34 Jeremiah 48:35 Isaiah 16:8

Numbers 32:37 · BSB

The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

Numbers 21:25–30 · BSB

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Isaiah 15:5 · BSB

My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

Jeremiah 48:34 · BSB

There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.

Jeremiah 48:35 · BSB

In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.

Isaiah 16:8 · BSB

For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had s…

“come”

Jeremiah 31:36 Jeremiah 48:42 Jeremiah 33:24 Jeremiah 46:28 Esther 3:8–14 Psalm 83:4–8

Jeremiah 31:36 · BSB

“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

Jeremiah 48:42 · BSB

Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.

Jeremiah 33:24 · BSB

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Jeremiah 46:28 · BSB

And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline y…

Esther 3:8–14 · BSB

Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws…

Psalm 83:4–8 · BSB

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

“thou shalt”

Jeremiah 25:15 Jeremiah 25:17

Jeremiah 25:15 · BSB

This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.

Jeremiah 25:17 · BSB

So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,

“cut down”

Isaiah 15:1 Isaiah 25:10

Isaiah 15:1 · BSB

This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

Isaiah 25:10 · BSB

For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.

Also

Jeremiah 48:45 Jeremiah 49:3

Jeremiah 48:45 · BSB

“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.

Jeremiah 49:3 · BSB

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.

3A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

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