A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim: ‘Plundering 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.
- BSB A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation 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 for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
- Jer 48:34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also will become desolate.
- Jer 48:5For they shall go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
- Isa 15:2They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
- Jer 47:2Yahweh says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
- Isa 22:4Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Isa 16:7–11Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
- Isa 15:8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
- Jer 4:20–21Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
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