Jeremiah 48:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

Jeremiah 48:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 21:27-30
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: …
Esther 8:11
Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
Psalms 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

We may observe in these verses, I. The author of Moab’s destruction; it is the Lord of hosts, that has armies, all armies, at his command, and the God of Israel (Jer. 48:1), who will herein plead the cause of his Israel against a people that have always been vexatious to them, and will punish them now for the injuries done to Israel of old, though Israel was forbidden to meddle with them (Deut. 2:…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. little ones ... cry--heightening the distress of the scene. The foe does not spare even infants.