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Jeremiah 48:26

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48:26“Moab has vaunted itself against me.

So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath37

until he splashes38 around in his own vomit,

until others treat him as a laughingstock.

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Footnotes

  1. 37 Heb “Make him drunk because he has magnified himself against the Lord.” The first person has again been adopted for consistency within a speech of the Lord. Almost all of the commentaries relate the figure of drunkenness to the figure of drinking the cup of God’s wrath spelled out in Jer 25 where reference is made at one point to the nations drinking, staggering, vomiting, and falling (25:27 and see G. L. Keown, P. J. Scalise, T. G. Smothers, Jeremiah 26–52 [], , for a full list of references to this figure including this passage and 49:12–13; 51:6–10, 39, 57).
  2. 38 The meaning of this word is uncertain. It is usually used of clapping the hands or the thigh in helpless anger or disgust. Hence J. Bright (Jeremiah [], 321) paraphrases “shall vomit helplessly.” II סָפַק relates this to an Aramaic word and see a homonym meaning “vomit” or “spew out.” The translation is that of 706 סָפַק Qal.3, “splash (fall with a splash),” from the same root that refers to slapping or clapping the thigh.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Make her drunk,

for she has defied the Lord.

Let Moab wallow in her vomit;

let her be an object of ridicule.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Make him drunk, because he has exalted himself against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Let him stagger and fall like a drunkard,

for he has rebelled against the Lord.

Moab will wallow in his own vomit,

ridiculed by all.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Make him drunk,

because he magnified himself against Yahweh,

and let Moab wallow in his vomit.

And he also will become a laughingstock.

KJV 1900King James Version

Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the Lord:

Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,

And he also shall be in derision.