The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.
Parallel translations
- KJV The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
- BSB The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.
- NKJV The horn of Moab is cut off, And his arm is broken,” says the Lord.
- NASB The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm broken,” declares the Lord.
- NLT “The strength of Moab has ended. His arm has been broken,” says the Lord.
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Quick answer
Moab's horn is cut off and her arm broken, declares the LORD, signifying her strength is destroyed.
Overview
The horn and arm symbolize power and strength, now severed and shattered by the LORD. Moab's capacity to defend or assert herself is gone. The stripping away of human strength magnifies that true and lasting power belongs to God alone, whose arm brings salvation to His people in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 75:10I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
- Ps 10:15Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
- Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Zech 1:19–21I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
- Dan 8:21The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
- Dan 7:8I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
- Lam 2:3He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
- Dan 8:7–9I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him; and there was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
- Ezek 30:21–25Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.
- Ps 37:17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
- Num 32:37The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
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