Jeremiah 48:17 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁷ All ye that are about him bemoan him; and all ye that know his name: say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful stick!

^{4 (9:3)} For the yoke of their burden, and the staff on their shoulder, the rod of their oppressor, hast thou broken, as on the day of Midian.

⁵ Woe over Asshur, the rod of my anger; and a staff is in their hand my indignation.

⁴ That thou wilt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath ceased the oppressor! ceased the exactress of gold! ⁵ Broken hath the Lord the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of rulers;

⁸ For the fields of Cheshbon are withered, the vine of Sibmah—the lords of nations have beaten down its branches, they did reach as far as Ya’zer, into the wilderness did they wander; its tendrils were stretched forth, they passed over the sea.

^{17 (9:16)} Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Consider it well, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the women skilled in lament, that they may come; ^{18 (9:17)} And let them make haste, and take up for us a lamentation, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids drop down water. ^{19 (9:18)} For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we wasted! we are greatly ashamed; because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. ^{20 (9:19)} For hear, O ye women, the word of the Lord, and let your ear perceive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

³¹ Therefore will I wail for Moab, and for all Moab will I cry out; for the men of Kir-cheres shall people moan. ³² With the weeping of Ya’zer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah; thy tendrils once passed over the sea, they reached as far as to the sea of Ya’zer: over thy summer-fruits and over thy vintage the waster is fallen. ³³ And banished are joy and gladness from Carmel, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused the wine to cease from the wine-presses; none shall tread the press with the vintner’s call; battle cry—nor vintner’s call.

³⁹ Oh, how is it broken down! wail! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! and Moab shall be a derision and a dismay to all those around him.

¹¹ And she had strong branches fit for the sceptres of rulers, and her stature grew up high between the thick-branched trees, and she was seen through her height by means of the multitude of her tendrils. ¹² But she was plucked up in fury, to the ground was she cast down, and the east wind dried up her fruit: and torn off and dried up were her strong branches, a fire consumed them. ¹³ And now is she planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. ¹⁴ And fire is gone out of a branch of her boughs, and hath devoured her fruit, so that there is no more on her a strong branch for a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and it is become a lamentation.

¹⁰ And I took my staff, namely, Mildness, and cut it to pieces, to annul my covenant which I had made with all the tribes. ¹¹ And when it was annulled on that day, then knew they well, truly the poorest of the flocks that waited for me, that it was the word of the Lord. ¹² And I said unto them, If it be good in your eyes, give me my reward; and if not, forbear. So they weighed out as my reward thirty pieces of silver. ¹³ And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the treasurer, the precious price which I am prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them in the house of the Lord unto the treasurer. ¹⁴ Then I cut in pieces my second staff, namely, Concord, to annul the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.