Jeremiah 48:27

Translations

Modern

Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

Traditional

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

Literal

For did not Israel come to be for you a laughingstock? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him you shake your head about him?

Latin

Fuit enim in derisum tibi Israël: quasi inter fures reperisses eum: propter verba ergo tua quæ adversum illum locutus es, captivus duceris.

Original

Hebrew

English

Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

Notes

Jeremiah 48:26–27

Moab hated Israel because they opposed the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:1–47

Moab, one of two nations descended from Abraham’s nephew Lot (Genesis 19:36–38), was the next nation judged in the Lord’s courtroom (compare Isaiah 15–16). Moab’s land was between the Arnon River and the Zered Brook, east of the Dead Sea. At that time, the Moabites felt confident because they were mostly safe from Babylonian military power. However, the Lord found the Moabites to be greedy and cruel, and their worship was violent and indulgent.

Jeremiah 48:1–49:6

The Lord ordered the destruction and future rebuilding of Moab and Ammon. These two nations came from Lot, who was Abraham's nephew (Genesis 19:36–38).

Theme notes and profiles

Messages Against the Nations The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
Micah 7:8–10
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Zephaniah 2:8
“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
Ezekiel 25:8
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
Lamentations 2:15–17
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Psalm 44:13
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Proverbs 24:17–18
Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
Zephaniah 2:10
This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
Ezekiel 36:4
…therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
Job 16:4
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Matthew 27:38
Two robbers were crucified with Him, one on His right and the other on His left.
Matthew 26:55
At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.

Parallels

Isaiah 15:1–9

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah Heshbon Horonaim Kerioth Moab, Moabites Nations Zoar

Topics

Moabites: Prophesies Respecting: Their Desolation As a Punishment for Their Hatred of Israel

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