Jeremiah 48:27
New International Version
Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her?

New Living Translation
Did you not ridicule the people of Israel? Were they caught in the company of thieves that you should despise them as you do?

English Standard Version
Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

Berean Standard Bible
Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

King James Bible
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

New King James Version
For was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him, You shake your head in scorn.

New American Standard Bible
Now was Israel not a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For whenever you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

NASB 1995
“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.

NASB 1977
“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.

Legacy 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.

Amplified Bible
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.

Christian Standard Bible
Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if Israel was not for ridicule to you, also he found among thieves when you were making war with him

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.

Contemporary English Version
You made fun of my people and treated them like criminals caught in the act.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Israel hath been a derision unto thee: as though thou hadst found him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive.

English Revised 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
People of Moab, didn't you laugh at the people of Israel? Were they caught among thieves? Whenever you talk about them you shake your heads in contempt.

Good News Translation
Moab, remember how you made fun of the people of Israel? You treated them as though they had been caught with a gang of robbers.

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?

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
And was Israel not the derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For since your words concerning him, | You bemoan yourself.

Majority Standard Bible
Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

New American Bible
Has Israel not been a laughingstock to you? Was he caught among thieves that you wag your heads whenever you speak of him?

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 Revised Standard Version
Israel was a laughingstock for you, though he was not caught among thieves; but whenever you spoke of him you shook your head!

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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's 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.

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Context
The Judgment on Moab
26“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock. 27 Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head. 28Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.…

Cross References
Job 16:4
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Psalm 64:8
They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets

Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Lamentations 1:7
In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.

Lamentations 1:12
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

Lamentations 2:15
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?"


Treasury of Scripture

For was not Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.

was not

Psalm 44:13
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Proverbs 24:17,18
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: …

was he found

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,

Matthew 26:55
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

Matthew 27:38
Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.

skippedst.

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Jeremiah 48
1. The judgment of Moab
7. for their pride
11. for their security
14. for their carnal confidence
26. and for their contempt of God and his people
47. The restoration of Moab














(27) Was not Israel a derision unto thee?--The "derision" had been shown at an earlier stage in the history of Judah (Zephaniah 2:8; comp. Ezekiel 25:6), but was, we may well believe, reproduced when the Moabites heard of the disasters that fell on Israel in the days of Josiah and his successors. The question that follows "Was he found among thieves?" implies an answer in the negative. Israel had not been among the lawless, aggressive nations, the robbers of the earth. Compare 2Samuel 3:33, where the question, "Died Abner as a fool dieth?" implies that he had not deserved his death as guilty of any crime. By some critics, however, the Hebrew interrogative is taken as meaning "when," and so involving the admission that Israel had been guilty of unjust invasion, and been led to that guilt by her alliance with the robber nations of the heathen.

Thou skippedst for joy.--The gesture described. like the wagging of the head of Jeremiah 18:16, or the shrugging of the shoulders, is one of triumphant malice. The symbolism of Oriental gesture is, it may be noted, specially rich in expressions of this form of evil. (Comp. Isaiah 57:4; Psalm 22:7.) . . .

Verse 27. - Was he found among thieves? for, etc.; rather,... that, as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest thy head. What giveth thee the right to show such scorn and insolent triumph towards Israel, as if he were one who had been arrested in the very act of robbery (comp. Jeremiah 2:26)?

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Was
הָיָ֤ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

not
ל֣וֹא (lō·w)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

your object of ridicule?
הַשְּׂחֹ֗ק (haś·śə·ḥōq)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7814: Laughter, derision, sport

Was he ever found [among thieves]?
נִמְצָ֑א (nim·ṣā)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

whenever
מִדֵּ֧י (mid·dê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1767: Sufficiency, enough

you speak of him
דְבָרֶ֥יךָ (ḏə·ḇā·re·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

you shake your head.”
תִּתְנוֹדָֽד׃ (tiṯ·nō·w·ḏāḏ)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5110: To nod, waver, to wander, flee, disappear, to console, deplore, taunt


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