Jeremiah 48:27

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

In Context

26Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.

28O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.

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Cross References

Job 16:4It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

Psalms 79:4We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

Lamentations 2:15All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Ezekiel 26:2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;

Ezekiel 36:2This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:

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 →

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