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Howאֵיךְit is dismayed!חַתָּהWail!הֵילִילוּHowאֵיךְMoabמוֹאָבhas turnedהִפְנָהhis backעֹרֶףin shame!בּוֹשׁAnd Moabוְ מוֹאָבwill becomeהָיָהa laughingstockלִשְׂחֹקand a terrorוְלִמְחִתָּהto allלְכָלwho are around him.סְבִיבָיו
Jeremiah 48:39
Study it in the app“How it is dismayed! Wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! And Moab will become a laughingstock and a terror to all who are around him.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 48:39, word by word
- it is dismayedחַתָּהchata
be dismayed
To lose heart from fear, to have no strength to go on.
Where else “chata” appears- Wailהֵילִילוּhelilu
howl, wail
To howl, to wail: to cry out loud in grief or alarm.
Where else “helilu” appears- Moabמוֹאָבmoav
Moab
See it on the mapWhere else “moav” appears- has turnedהִפְנָהhifna
turn
To turn toward something, someone or God.
Where else “hifna” appears- his backעֹרֶףoref
back
To show the nape, flee.
Where else “oref” appears- in shameבּוֹשׁbosh
be ashamed
To feel disgrace and distress over something bad one did or that befell him.
Where else “bosh” appears- will becomeהָיָהhaya
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “haya” appears- a laughingstockשְׂחֹקsechok
laughingstock
A person others mock and laugh at.
Where else “sechok” appears- and a terrorמְחִתָּהmechita
terror
Something that causes dread.
Where else “mechita” appears- who are around himסְבִיבָיsevivay
around
In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.
Where else “sevivay” appears
Places in this verse
Moab
Today: western Jordan, east of the Dead Sea
The land east of the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan.
The Moabites came from a son of Lot (Gen 19:37). Ruth came from Moab (Ruth 1:1-4), and Moses died in its territory (Deut 34:5).
The context
38On all the rooftops of Moab and in its squares all of it is lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, declares YHWH.
39 · This verse (above)
40For thus says YHWH: Look, like the eagle he will swoop and spread his wings over Moab.