Jeremiah 48:27 “Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieve…”

Jeremiah 48:27

Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

World English Bible

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

American Standard Version

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

Geneva Bible 1599

For diddest not thou deride Israel, as though he had bene found among theeues? for when thou speakest of him, thou art moued.

Darby Translation

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves, that as oft as thou didst speak of him, thou didst shake the head?

Young's Literal Translation

And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself.

Bible in Basic English

For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

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Cross references

“was not”

Micah 7:8–10 Lamentations 2:15–17 Ezekiel 25:8 Zephaniah 2:8 Psalm 44:13 Psalm 79:4

Micah 7:8–10 · BSB

Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

Lamentations 2:15–17 · BSB

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Ezekiel 25:8 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”

Zephaniah 2:8 · BSB

“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.

Psalm 44:13 · BSB

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

Psalm 79:4 · BSB

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

“was he found”

Jeremiah 2:26 Matthew 26:55 Matthew 27:38

Jeremiah 2:26 · BSB

As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets

Matthew 26:55 · BSB

At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.

Matthew 27:38 · BSB

Two robbers were crucified with Him, one on His right and the other on His left.

Also

Jeremiah 18:16 Job 16:4

Jeremiah 18:16 · BSB

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Job 16:4 · BSB

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

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

In context

26“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

28Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.

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