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

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

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

New King James Version
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim: ‘Plundering and great destruction!’

New American Standard Bible
“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

NASB 1995
“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

NASB 1977
“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

Legacy Standard Bible
The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

Amplified Bible
“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, ‘Desolation and great destruction!’

Christian Standard Bible
A voice cries out from Horonaim, “devastation and a crushing blow! ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A voice cries out from Horonaim, “devastation and great disaster!”

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

Contemporary English Version
The people of Horonaim will cry for help, as their town is attacked and destroyed.

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

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

Good News Translation
The people of Horonaim cry out, 'Violence! Destruction!'

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

Majority Standard Bible
A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

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

New Heart English Bible
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, "destruction and great calamity."

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!
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A voice of a cry [is] from Horonaim, "" Spoiling and great destruction.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
A voice of a cry from Horonaim, laying waste, and great breaking.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.

Catholic Public Domain Version
A voice of clamor from Horonaim: devastation and great destruction!

New American Bible
Listen! an outcry from Horonaim, “Ruin and great destruction!”

New Revised Standard Version
Hark! a cry from Horonaim, “Desolation and great destruction!”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
A sound of wailing is heard from Horonaim, plunder and great destruction.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The sound of wailing from Khornim, plunder and great ruin!
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Hark! a cry from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
for there is a voice of men crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Judgment on Moab
2There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you. 3A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’ 4Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.…

Cross References
Isaiah 15:1-9
This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night! / Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off. / In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. ...

Isaiah 16:6-11
We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty. / Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken. / For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea. ...

Amos 2:1-3
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king. / So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn. / I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.

Zephaniah 2:8-11
“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders. / Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.” / This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts. ...

Numbers 21:27-30
That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored. / For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights. / Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites. ...

Ezekiel 25:8-11
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,” / therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land. / I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations. ...

Isaiah 25:10-12
For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile. / He will spread out his hands within it, as a swimmer spreads his arms to swim. His pride will be brought low, despite the skill of his hands. / The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.

Isaiah 34:8-10
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. / Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch. / It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

Isaiah 63:1-6
Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” / Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? / “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained. ...

Lamentations 2:11-12
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. / They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

Revelation 18:2-3
And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast. / All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

Revelation 14:8
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

Revelation 18:9-10
Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. / In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

Revelation 18:17-19
For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance / and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim. / Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”

Revelation 19:1-3
After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God! / For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.” / And a second time they called out: “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”


Treasury of Scripture

A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

voice

Jeremiah 4:20,21
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment…

Jeremiah 47:2
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

Isaiah 15:2,8
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off…

Horonaim

Jeremiah 48:5,34
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction…

Isaiah 15:5
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

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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














“A voice cries out”
The phrase "A voice cries out" signifies an urgent proclamation or warning. In the Hebrew text, the word for "voice" is "קוֹל" (qol), which often denotes a sound that demands attention, such as a shout or a cry. This is not a mere whisper but a loud, clear call that signifies the seriousness of the message. In the context of biblical prophecy, such a voice often heralds impending judgment or significant events. The urgency of this voice reflects the immediacy of the threat facing Moab, emphasizing the need for the people to heed the warning.

“from Horonaim”
Horonaim is a location in Moab, mentioned several times in the Bible, particularly in the context of judgment against Moab. The name "Horonaim" is derived from the Hebrew root "חור" (hor), meaning "cave" or "hollow," suggesting a place that is low or hidden. Historically, Moab was situated east of the Dead Sea, and Horonaim was likely a city or region within Moab. The mention of Horonaim here is significant as it localizes the prophecy, indicating that the devastation is not just a general threat but a specific calamity targeting a known place within Moab. This specificity underscores the certainty and precision of God's judgment.

“‘Devastation and great destruction!’”
The words "Devastation and great destruction" convey the severity of the impending judgment. The Hebrew word for "devastation" is "שֹׁד" (shod), which implies violence, ruin, or havoc. It is often used in the context of military conquest or divine judgment. The term "great destruction" further amplifies the intensity of the devastation, with "שֶׁבֶר" (sheber) meaning a breaking or shattering. Together, these words paint a picture of complete and overwhelming ruin. This prophecy serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of sin and rebellion against God. It reflects the biblical theme that God is just and will not allow wickedness to go unpunished. The destruction of Moab serves as a warning to all nations and individuals to turn from sin and seek God's mercy.

(3) Horonaim--literally, the two caverns, or the two Horons--may imply, like other dual names of towns, that there was an upper and a lower city. It is mentioned in Isaiah 15:5, but has not been identified.

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

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
A voice
ק֥וֹל (qō·wl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

cries out
צְעָקָ֖ה (ṣə·‘ā·qāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6818: A cry, outcry

from Horonaim,
מֵחֹֽרוֹנָ֑יִם (mê·ḥō·rō·w·nā·yim)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2773: Horonaim -- 'two hollows', a place in Moab

‘Devastation
שֹׁ֖ד (šōḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7701: Violence, havoc, devastation, ruin

and great
גָּדֽוֹל׃ (gā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

destruction!’
וָשֶׁ֥בֶר (wā·še·ḇer)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7667: A breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash


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