Jeremiah 48:17 Cross References - LITV

¹⁷ All who are around him mourn for him. And all who know his name, say, How the strong staff is broken, the beautiful rod!

⁴ For You have broken his burdensome yoke and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his taskmaster, as in the day of Midian.

⁵ Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And My fury is the staff in their hand.

⁴ you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: How the exacter, the gold gatherer, has ceased! ⁵ Jehovah has broken the rod of the wicked, the staff of rulers,

⁸ For the fields of Heshbon droop, the vine of Sibmah. The masters of the nations have crushed its choice plants. They have come to Jazer; they wander in the desert; her branches are spread out; they have crossed the sea.

¹⁷ So says Jehovah of Hosts, Consider and call for the wailers, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come. ¹⁸ And let them make haste and take up a lament over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids. ¹⁹ For the voice of lament is heard from Zion. How we are ravaged! We are greatly ashamed because we have forsaken the land; because they have thrown down our dwellings. ²⁰ Yet hear the word of Jehovah, women. And let your ear receive the word of His mouth, and teach your daughters a lament, and each one her neighbor a dirge.

³¹ On account of this I will wail for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab, and he shall mourn for the men of Kirheres. ³² O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you more than the weeping of Jazer. Your plants have crossed the sea; they reach to the sea of Jazer. A ravager has fallen on your harvest, and on your grape crop. ³³ And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab. And I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses. None shall tread the grapes with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.

³⁹ They shall howl, saying, How it is broken down! How has Moab turned his back in shame! So Moab shall be a mockery, and a terror to all those around him.

¹¹ And there were rods to her, strong for the scepters of rulers, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches. And it was seen in her height, with the multitude of her branches. ¹² But she was plucked in fury. She was thrown to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong rods were torn away and withered; the fire burned her. ¹³ And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. ¹⁴ And fire has gone out from a rod of her branches, it consumed her fruit, and there is not a strong rod in her to be a scepter to rule. It is a lament, and has become a lament.

¹⁰ And I took My staff Kindness and broke it apart, to break My covenant which I had cut with all the peoples. ¹¹ And it was broken in that day, and so the poor of the flock who were watching Me knew that it was the word of Jehovah. ¹² And I said to them, If it is good in your eyes, give My price; and if not, let it go. And they weighed My price, thirty pieces of silver. ¹³ And Jehovah said to Me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it to the potter in the house of Jehovah. ¹⁴ Then I broke apart My second staff Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

¹⁴ And the ripe fruits of the lust of your soul went away from you, and all the fat things, and the bright things went away from you, and you will find them no more, not at all. ¹⁵ The merchants of these things, the ones being enriched from her, will stand from afar because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning; ¹⁶ and saying, Woe! Woe to the great city having been clothed in linen and purple and scarlet, and having been gilded with gold and precious stone, and pearls! ¹⁷ For in one hour such great wealth was desolated. And every ship-pilot and all company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from afar, ¹⁸ and cried out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What is like the great city? ¹⁹ And they threw dust on their heads, and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, by which all those having ships in the sea were rich, from her costliness, because in one hour she was ruined. ²⁰ Rejoice over her, Heaven, and the holy apostles, and the prophets, because God judged your judgment on her.