Jeremiah 48:3 “A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’”

Jeremiah 48:3

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

World English Bible

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

American Standard Version

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Geneva Bible 1599

A voyce of crying shall be from Horonaim with desolation and great destruction.

Darby Translation

A voice of crying from Horonaim; wasting and great destruction!

Young's Literal Translation

A voice of a cry [is] from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction.

Bible in Basic English

There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;

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Cross references

“voice”

Jeremiah 47:2 Isaiah 15:2 Isaiah 15:8 Isaiah 16:7–11 Isaiah 22:4 Jeremiah 4:20

Jeremiah 47:2 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and…

Isaiah 15:2 · BSB

Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

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.

Isaiah 22:4 · BSB

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Jeremiah 4:20 · BSB

Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

“Horonaim”

Isaiah 15:5 Jeremiah 48:34 Jeremiah 48:5

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 48:5 · BSB

For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

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

In context

2There 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.

4Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.

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