Jeremiah 49:3

Wail, O Cheshbon, for Ai is plundered: 1 cry out, ye banot of Rabbah, 1 gird you with sackcloth; 1 lament, and rush to and fro inside the walls; 1 for Malcam (Molech) shall go into Golus, 1 and his kohanim and his sarim together. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

In Context

2Therefore, hinei, the days come, saith Hashem, 1 that I will cause an alarm of milchamah 1 to be heard in Rabbah of Bnei Ammon; 1 and it shall become a desolate tel (mound), 1 and her banot shall be burned with eish: 1 then shall Yisroel dispossess his dispossessors, saith Hashem. 1

4Why gloriest thou in the valleys, 1 thy flowing emek (valley), O Bat hashovevah (backsliding Daughter)? 1 That trusted in her otzarot, saying: 1 Who shall come unto Me? 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:5For Sh'lomo went after Ashtoret elohei Tzidonim, and after Milkom shikkutz (the abomination of) Ammonim.

2 Kings 23:13And the high places that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right of the Har HaMashchit, which Sh'lomo Melech Yisroel had built for Ashtoret shikkutz Tzidonim, and for Kemosh shikkutz Moav, and for Milkom to'avat Bnei Ammon, did HaMelech make tameh.

Isaiah 13:6Wail ye; for the Yom Hashem is karov (near); 1 it shall come like shod (sudden destruction) from Shaddai. 1

Isaiah 15:2He is gone up to the [idol] temple, and to Divon, 1 the + 15:2 idolatrous high places, to weep: 1 Moav shall howl over Nevo, and over Medeva; 1 on all their rosh shall be shaved heads, 1 and every zakan (beard) cut off. 1

Isaiah 23:1The massa (burden) of Tzor: 1 Howl, ye oniyyot (ships) of Tarshish; 1 for it is destroyed, so that there is no bais, no entering in; 1 from the Eretz Kittim (Land of Cyprus) 1 niglah (it is revealed) to them. 1

Isaiah 32:11Tremble, ye nashim that are complacently at ease; 1 shake, ye complacent ones; 1 strip you, and make you bare, 1 and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:2-7

The Judgment of Ammonites. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the Lord ; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the Lord . 3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled:… Read the whole commentary →

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