Jeremiah 48:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’”
What this verse means
A short, plain-language explanation of Jeremiah 48:3 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
Compare translations
BSBPD
“A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“A voice of a cry <FI>is<Fi> from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Jeremiah 48:3 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 15:2Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- Isaiah 15:8For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
- Isaiah 16:7Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.
- Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
- Jeremiah 4:20Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
- Jeremiah 47:2This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail
- Jeremiah 48:5For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:
- Jeremiah 48:34There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Keep exploring