A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
- BSB A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation 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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- Isa 15:5My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
- Jer 48:34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
- Jer 48:5For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
- Isa 15:2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
- Jer 47:2Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
- Isa 22:4Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
- Isa 16:7–11Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
- Isa 15:8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
- Jer 4:20–21Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
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