Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

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? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”

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.

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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For was not Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

שׂחק שׂחוק 
S@chowq 
Usage: 15

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

גּנּב 
Gannab 
Usage: 17

דּי 
Day 
Usage: 34

thou spakest
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

of him, thou skippedst
נוּד 
Nuwd 
Usage: 24

References

Fausets

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Moab

26 Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. 27 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. 28 O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest over the mouth of the abyss.



Cross References

Jeremiah 2:26

As 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;

Micah 7:8-10

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.

Lamentations 2:15-17

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,'saying , Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Ezekiel 25:8

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations;

Zephaniah 2:8

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

Psalm 44:13

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 79:4

We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

Proverbs 24:17-18

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Ezekiel 26:2-3

Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

Ezekiel 35:15

As thou didst rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel 36:2

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;

Obadiah 1:12-13

But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.

Zephaniah 2:10

This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

Matthew 7:2

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.

Matthew 26:55

In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.

Matthew 27:38

Then are there crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand and one on the left.

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