Jeremiah 48:27
For was not Israel a derision unto you? was he found among thieves? for since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.
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Job 16:4I also could speak as all of you do: if your soul were in my soul's position, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Psalms 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that 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 princes, and their priests, and their prophets.
Lamentations 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Ezekiel 26:2Son of man, because that Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
Ezekiel 36:2Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, even 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 →