Jeremiah 31:15
Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
14How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?
16The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly to vengeance.
Cross References
Genesis 5:24And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.
Genesis 37:35And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him.
Genesis 42:36And their father Jacob said to them, Ye have bereaved me. Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and will ye take Benjamin? all these things have come upon me.
1 Samuel 7:17And his return was to Ramah, because there was his house; and there he judged Israel, and built there an altar to the Lord.
Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 31:11-18
Restoration of Israel; Promises to Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 10 Hear the word of the Lord , O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord , for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the… Read the whole commentary →