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Jeremiah 48:27

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48:27For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel?

Did you think that they were nothing but thieves,39

that you shook your head in contempt40

every time you talked about them?41

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Footnotes

  1. 39 Heb “were they caught among thieves?”
  2. 40 Heb “that you shook yourself.” But see the same verb in 18:16 in the active voice with the object “head” in a very similar context of contempt or derision.
  3. 41 The reading here presupposes the emendation of דְבָרֶיךָ (dévarekha, “your words”) to דַבֶּרְךָ (dabberkha, “your speaking”), suggested by (cf. fn c) on the basis of one of the Greek versions (Symmachus). For the idiom cf. 191 דַּי 2.c.α.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?

Was she caught among thieves,

that you shake your head in scorn

whenever you speak of her?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”

NLTNew Living Translation

Did you not ridicule the people of Israel?

Were they caught in the company of thieves

that you should despise them as you do?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Now was not Israel the laughingstock to you?

Or was he found among thieves?

For as often as you spoke over him

you shook your head.

KJV 1900King James Version

For was not Israel a derision unto thee?

Was he found among thieves?

For since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.