A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’
Parallel translations
- WEB The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
- KJV A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
- NKJV A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim: ‘Plundering and great destruction!’
- NASB “The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, ‘Devastation and great destruction!’
- NLT Listen to the cries from Horonaim, cries of devastation and great destruction.
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A cry of desolation and great destruction rises from Horonaim.
Overview
The prophet hears the sound of catastrophe echoing from a Moabite town. The terse cry conveys the suddenness and severity of the devastation. Such laments throughout the oracle press home the reality of judgment, while pointing the reader toward the only sure deliverance from ruin found in God.
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Cross-references · 9
- Isa 15:5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- Jer 48:34There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
- Jer 48:5For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:
- Isa 15:2Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- Jer 47:2This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail
- Isa 22:4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
- Isa 16:7–11Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.
- Isa 15:8For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
- Jer 4:20–21Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
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