Jeremiah 48:27 Parallel Translations

People of Moab, didn't you laugh at the people of Israel? Were they caught among thieves? Whenever you talk about them you shake your heads in contempt.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

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?

ERV:

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.

JPS:

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.

WBS:

For was not Israel a derision to thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou hast spoken of him, thou hast leaped for joy.

WEB:

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.

YLT:

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

Jeremiah 48:27 Cross References

XREF:

Job 16:4 "I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.

Jeremiah 2:26 "As the thief is shamed when he is discovered, So the house of Israel is shamed; They, their kings, their princes And their priests and their prophets,

Jeremiah 18:16 To make their land a desolation, An object of perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.

Lamentations 2:15 All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision 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, A joy to all the earth '?"

Micah 7:8 Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the LORD is a light for me. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

48:27 For was not Israel a derision to thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou hast spoken of him, thou didst {p} leap for joy.
(p) You rejoiced to hear of his misery, Isa 16:6.

WES:

48:27 Was he found - Why didst thou deal by Israel as men deal by thieves, when they are brought to shame?

MHC:

48:14-47. 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 search into all the figures and expressions here used. Yet it is not perpetual destruction. The chapter ends with a promise of their return out of captivity in the latter days. Even with Moabites God will not contend for ever, nor be always wroth. The Jews refer it to the days of the Messiah; then the captives of the Gentiles, under the yoke of sin and Satan, shall be brought back by Divine grace, which shall make them free indeed.

CONC:

Bemoan Caught Derision Hast Joy Laughingstock Leaped Oft Often Ridicule Scorn Shake Shaking Skippedst Spakest Speak Speakest Spoke Spoken Sport Talking Thieves Thyself Wagged Waggest Wasn't Whenever

Bemoan Caught Derision Found Head Israel Joy Leaped Object Oft Often Ridicule Shake Shaking Spakest Speak Speakest Sport Talking Thieves Thyself Time Wag Wasn't Whenever Words

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