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Jeremiah 48

Jer. 48:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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There shall be no more praise
thillah (Hebrew #8416)
laudation; specifically (concretely) a hymn
KJV usage: praise.
Pronounce: teh-hil-law'
Origin: from 1984
of Moab
Mow'ab (Hebrew #4124)
from (her (the mother's)) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
KJV usage: Moab.
Pronounce: mo-awb
Origin: from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and 1
: in Heshbon
Cheshbown (Hebrew #2809)
Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Heshbon.
Pronounce: khesh-bone'
Origin: the same as 2808
t they have devised
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
against it; come
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
, and let us cut it off
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
from being a nation
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
. Also thou shalt be νcut down
damam (Hebrew #1826)
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
KJV usage: cease, be cut down (off), forbear, hold peace, quiet self, rest, be silent, keep (put to) silence, be (stand) still, tarry, wait.
Pronounce: daw-man'
Origin: a prim root (compare 1724, 1820)
, O Madmen
Madmen (Hebrew #4086)
dunghill; Madmen, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Madmen.
Pronounce: mad-mane'
Origin: from the same as 1828
; the sword
chereb (Hebrew #2719)
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
KJV usage: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
Pronounce: kheh'-reb
Origin: from 2717
shall πpursue
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
thee
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
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Num. 32:37• 37—And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim, (Num. 32:37)
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or, brought to silence,
Isa. 15:1• 1The burden of Moab. (Isa. 15:1)
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π
go after.

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Heshbon,
Madmen,
Moab; Moabites,
Sword

Cross References

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no more.
Jer. 48:17• 17All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod! (Jer. 48:17)
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Isa. 16:14• 14And now Jehovah speaketh, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nought, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account. (Isa. 16:14)
Heshbon.
Jer. 48:34‑35• 34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
 35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith Jehovah, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods. (Jer. 48:34‑35)
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Num. 21:25‑30• 25And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, at Heshbon, and in all its dependent villages.
 26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and had taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.
 27Therefore the poets say,{HR}Come to Heshbon;{HR}Let the city of Sihon be built and established.{HR}
 28For there went forth fire from Heshbon,{HR}A flame from the city of Sihon;{HR}It consumed Ar of Moab,{HR}The lords of the high places of the Arnon.{HR}
 29Woe to thee, Moab!{HR}Thou art undone, people of Chemosh:{HR}He gave his sons that had escaped,{HR}And his daughters into captivity{HR}To Sihon the king of the Amorites.{HR}
 30And we have shot at them;{HR}Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon;{HR}And we have laid them waste even unto Nophah,{HR}Which reacheth unto Medeba. (Num. 21:25‑30)
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Num. 32:37• 37—And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim, (Num. 32:37)
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Isa. 15:5• 5My heart crieth out for Moab; their nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. (Isa. 15:5)
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Isa. 16:8‑9• 8For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer; they wandered [through] the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.
 9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest. (Isa. 16:8‑9)
come.
Jer. 48:42• 42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah. (Jer. 48:42)
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Jer. 31:36• 36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. (Jer. 31:36)
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Jer. 33:24• 24Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. (Jer. 33:24)
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Jer. 46:28• 28Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished. (Jer. 46:28)
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Esther 3:8‑14• 8And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it [is] not for the king's profit to suffer them.
 9If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king's business, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries.
 10And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
 11And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
 12Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof, and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps and to the governors that [were] over every province, and to the princes of every people; to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king's ring.
 13And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which [is] the month Adar, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey.
 14A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day. (Esther 3:8‑14)
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Psa. 83:4‑8• 4They said, Come, and we will cut them off from [being] a nation,{HR}And let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
 5For they have heartily consulted together;{HR}Against thee do they make a covenant:
 6The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites,{HR}Moab and the Hagarenes;
 7Gebal and Ammon and Amalek;{HR}Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
 8Asshur also is joined with them;{HR}They are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah. (Psa. 83:4‑8)
thou shalt.
Jer. 25:15,17• 15For thus saith Jehovah God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
 17Then took I the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me. (Jer. 25:15,17)
cut down.
or, brought to silence.
Isa. 15:1• 1The burden of Moab. (Isa. 15:1)
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Isa. 25:10• 10For in this mountain shall the hand of Jehovah rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down on the dunghill. (Isa. 25:10)
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Isa. 25•  (Isa. 25)
:*marg:
Madmenah.
pursue thee.
Heb. go after thee.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Moab’s praiseg is no more; in Heshbon they have devisedh 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.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "exultation."
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A play on words. B'Heshbon hashbu.

W. Kelly Translation

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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.