The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.
- KJV The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith 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 75:10“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
- Ps 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
- Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
- Zech 1:19–21So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
- Dan 8:21The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.
- Dan 7:8While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
- Lam 2:3In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
- Dan 8:7–9I saw him approach the ram in a rage against him, and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against him, and the goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and no one could deliver the ram from his power.
- Ezek 30:21–25“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.
- Ps 37:17For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
- Num 32:37The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
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