Jeremiah 48:3
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New International Version (©2011)
Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim, cries of great havoc and destruction.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Listen to the cries from Horonaim, cries of devastation and great destruction.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“A voice! A cry from Horonaim, ‘Desolation and great destruction!’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, 'Devastation and great destruction!'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
A voice cries out from Horonaim, "devastation and great disaster!"

International Standard Version (©2012)
The sound of crying will come from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction.

NET Bible (©2006)
Cries of anguish will arise in Horonaim, 'Oh, the ruin and great destruction!'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
People will cry out from Horonaim, "Looting and great destruction!"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction.

American King James Version
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

American Standard Version
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Douay-Rheims Bible
A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.

Darby Bible Translation
A voice of crying from Horonaim; wasting and great destruction!

English Revised Version
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!

Webster's Bible Translation
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction.

World English Bible
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Young's Literal Translation
A voice of a cry is from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

48:1-13. The Chaldeans are to destroy the Moabites. We should be thankful that we are required to seek the salvation of men's lives, and the salvation of their souls, not to shed their blood; but we shall be the more without excuse if we do this pleasant work deceitfully. The cities shall be laid in ruins, and the country shall be wasted. There will be great sorrow. There will be great hurry. If any could give wings to sinners, still they could not fly out of the reach of Divine indignation. There are many who persist in unrepented iniquity, yet long enjoy outward prosperity. They had been long corrupt and unreformed, secure and sensual in prosperity. They have no changes of their peace and prosperity, therefore their hearts and lives are unchanged, Ps 55:19.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - Horonaim. This Moabite town was probably on the borders of Edom; hence, perhaps, "Sanballat the Horonite."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim,.... Another city of Moab. The word is of the dual number; and, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, there were two Horons, the upper and the lower; of this place See Gill on Isaiah 15:5; this also should be destroyed; and so a cry of the inhabitants of it should be heard out of it:

spoiling, and great destruction; because the city was spoiled, and a great destruction made in the inhabitants and riches of it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. Horonaim—the same as the city Avara, mentioned by Ptolemy. The word means "double caves" (Ne 2:10; Isa 15:5).

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The Judgment on Moab
1Against Moab thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe to Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. 2There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also you shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you. 3A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. …

Isaiah 15:5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.
Jeremiah 20:16 May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon.
Jeremiah 48:4 Moab will be broken; her little ones will cry out.
Jeremiah 48:5 They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping bitterly as they go; on the road down to Horonaim anguished cries over the destruction are heard.
Jeremiah 48:34 "The sound of their cry rises from Heshbon to Elealeh and Jahaz, from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim are dried up.
Jeremiah 51:54 "The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.