Jeremiah 48:27
For was not Israel a derision to thee? Was he found among thieves? For as often as thou speak of him, thou wag the head.
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Job 16:4I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.
Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed, they, their kings, their rulers, and their priests, and their prophets,
Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Ezekiel 26:2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken, the gate of the peoples. She has turned around to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,
Ezekiel 36:2Thus says lord LORD: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession,
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 48:15-47
The Judgment of Moab. ( b. c. 605.) 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war? 15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts. 16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. 17 All 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! 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy… Read the whole commentary →