Jeremiah 48:20 “Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Dec…”

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

World English Bible

Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

American Standard Version

Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

Geneva Bible 1599

Moab is cofouded: for it is destroied: howle, and cry, tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is made waste,

Darby Translation

Moab is put to shame; for he is broken down: howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

Young's Literal Translation

Put to shame hath been Moab, For it hath been broken down, Howl and cry, declare ye in Arnon, For spoiled is Moab,

Bible in Basic English

Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

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Cross references

“confounded”

Jeremiah 48:1–5 Isaiah 15:1–5 Isaiah 15:8 Isaiah 16:7–11

Jeremiah 48:1–5 · BSB

Concerning 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.

Isaiah 15:1–5 · 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 15:8 · BSB

For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.

Isaiah 16:7–11 · BSB

Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.

“Arnon”

Isaiah 16:2 Numbers 21:26–28 Deuteronomy 2:36 Joshua 13:9 Judges 11:18 Numbers 21:13

Isaiah 16:2 · BSB

Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

Numbers 21:26–28 · BSB

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

Deuteronomy 2:36 · BSB

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

Joshua 13:9 · BSB

The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

Judges 11:18 · BSB

Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab,…

Numbers 21:13 · BSB

From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.

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

In context

19Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’

21Judgment has come upon the high plain— upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

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