Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 Declare ye him drunk, For against Jehovah he made himself great And Moab hath stricken in his vomit, And he hath been for a derision -- even he. 27 And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself. 28 Forsake cities, and dwell in a rock, Ye inhabitants of Moab, And be as a dove making a nest in the passages of a pit's mouth.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:26
As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,
Micah 7:8-10
Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.
Lamentations 2:15-17
Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed -- and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: 'Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?'
Ezekiel 25:8
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of the saying of Moab and Seir: Lo, as all the nations is the house of Judah;
Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the revilings of the sons of Ammon, Wherewith they reproached My people, And magnify themselves against their border.
Job 16:4
I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
Psalm 44:13
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
Psalm 79:4
We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.
Proverbs 24:17-18
In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,
Jeremiah 18:16
To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.
Ezekiel 26:2-3
Because that Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, she hath been broken, the doors of the peoples, She hath turned round unto me, I am filled -- she hath been laid waste,
Ezekiel 35:15
According to thy joy at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, So I do to thee -- a desolation thou art, O mount Seir, and all Edom -- all of it, And they have known that I am Jehovah!
Ezekiel 36:2
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy said against you, Aha, and the high places of old for a possession have been to us,
Ezekiel 36:4
Therefore, O mountains of Israel, Hear a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah, to mountains, and to hills, To streams, and to valleys, And to wastes that are desolate, And to cities that are forsaken, That have been for a prey, And for a scorn, to the remnant of the nations who are round about.
Obadiah 1:12-13
And -- thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.
Zephaniah 2:10
This is to them for their arrogancy, Because they have reproached, And they magnify themselves against the people of Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 7:2
for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.
Matthew 26:55
In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, 'As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me;
Matthew 27:38
Then crucified with him are two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on the left,