Jeremiah 48:27

In 11 translations

BSB

Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

KJV

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.skippedst…: or, movedst thyself

WEB

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

ASV

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

LSV

And was Israel not the derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For since your words concerning him, || You bemoan yourself.

YLT

And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself.

DBY

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves, that as oft as thou didst speak of him, thou didst shake the head?

DRC

For Israel hath been a derision unto thee: as though thou hadst found him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive.

GNV

For diddest not thou deride Israel, as though he had bene found among theeues? for when thou speakest of him, thou art moued.

JPS

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves? For as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

LXXE31:27

For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.

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WLC

וְאִ֣ם ׀ ל֣וֹא הַשְּׂחֹ֗ק הָיָ֤ה לְךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־בְּגַנָּבִ֖ים נמצאה כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֧י דְבָרֶ֥יךָ בּ֖וֹ תִּתְנוֹדָֽד׃Read aloud as (qere): נִמְצָ֑א

LXX-Br31:27

Καὶ εἰ μὴ εἰς γελοιασμὸν ἦν σοι Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ ἐν κλοπαῖς σου εὑρέθη, ὅτι ἐπολέμεις αὐτόν.

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• Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
• Micah 7:8–10Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case…
• Lamentations 2:15–17All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” All your enemies…
• Ezekiel 25:8This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
• Zephaniah 2:8“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
• Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
• Ezekiel 35:15As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
• Matthew 27:38Two robbers were crucified with Him, one on His right hand and the other on His left.
• Job 16:4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
• Proverbs 24:17–18Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles, or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.
• Matthew 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
• Ezekiel 36:4therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a…
• Zephaniah 2:10This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
• Matthew 26:55At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.
• Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
• Obadiah 1:12–13But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress. You should not enter the…

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