Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Now was not Israel a
King James Version
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
Holman Bible
Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you?
International Standard Version
Wasn't Israel an object of mocking for you? Wasn't he treated like a thief, so that whenever you spoke about him you shook your head in contempt?
A Conservative Version
For was not Israel a derision to thee? Was he found among thieves? For as often as thou speak of him, thou wag the head.
American Standard Version
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.
Amplified
For was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he caught among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head in scorn.
Bible in Basic English
For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.
Darby Translation
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves, that as oft as thou didst speak of him, thou didst shake the head?
Julia Smith Translation
And if Israel was not a derision to thee? if he was found among thieves? for after thy speaking of him thou wilt move to and fro.
King James 2000
For was not Israel a derision unto you? was he found among thieves? for when you spoke of him, you wagged your head.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now [was] not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For {as often as} you spoke over him you shook [your head].
Modern King James verseion
For was not Israel a mockery to you? Was he found among thieves? For ever since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O Israel, shalt thou not laugh him to scorn, when he is taken among thieves? Yea, because of thy words that thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be driven away.
NET Bible
For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, that you shook your head in contempt every time you talked about them?
New Heart English Bible
For wasn't Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
The Emphasized Bible
And was it not, a derision, that Israel became to thee? And was it not among thieves, he was found? For, as often as thou didst speak of him, thou didst wag the head!
Webster
For was not Israel a derision to thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou hast spoken of him, thou hast leaped for joy.
World English Bible
For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
Youngs Literal Translation
And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself.
Themes
Moabites » Prophesies respecting » Their desolation as a punishment for their hatred of israel
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 48:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Moab
26
Jehovah said: 'Make Moab drunk, because it has rebelled against me. Moab will roll in its own vomit and people will laugh.
27 Now was not Israel a
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:26
As a thief feels ashamed when he is caught, so the nation of Israel will feel ashamed. Their kings, princes, priests, and prophets will also feel ashamed.
Micah 7:8-10
Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy! When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light to me.
Lamentations 2:15-17
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Ezekiel 25:8
The Lord Jehovah says: 'Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,
Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab and the taunting by the children of Ammon. They have reproached my people. They behave arrogantly at the border.
Job 16:4
I too could speak like you, if I were in your place. I could compose words against you. And I would shake my head at you.
Psalm 44:13
You made us a reproach to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.
Proverbs 24:17-18
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.
Jeremiah 18:16
They make their land desolation. It becomes an object of perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.
Ezekiel 26:2-3
Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I will be filled, now that she is laid waste.'
Ezekiel 35:15
As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolated, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.'
Ezekiel 36:2
'The Lord Jehovah says: Because the enemy has spoken against you, aha! And the everlasting heights have become our possession.
Ezekiel 36:4
'Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. The Lord Jehovah says to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities that have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations that are round about,
Obadiah 1:12-13
Do not look on the day of your brother's disaster. Do not rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction! Do not speak proudly in the day of distress.
Zephaniah 2:10
They will have this instead of their pride. This is because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 7:2
As you judge, so you will be judged. As you measure, it will be measured to you.
Matthew 26:55
That very hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out to take me with swords and sticks as if I were a thief? You did not take me when I taught in the Temple daily.
Matthew 27:38
Two robbers were impaled with him. One was on the right hand and one on the left.