Jeremiah Chapter 48 verse 4 Holy Bible
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.
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Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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Destroyed hath been Moab, Caused a cry to be heard have her little ones.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Moab is destroyed. The mention of Moab in the midst of towns is certainly surprising. We should expect Ar-Moab. Her little ones. The received text, as it stands, is untranslatable, and our choice lies between the correction suggested by the vowel points, and the reading of the Septuagint and a few of the extant Hebrew manuscripts, "unto Zoar." In favour of the latter, which is adopted by Ewald and Graf, it may he urged that Zoar and Horenaim are mentioned together, not only in ver. 34, but also in Isaiah 15:5, which has evidently been imitated in the following verse. It is not quite clear what "her little ones" in the first mentioned correction mean. Some think, the children; others, the poor; Hitzig prefers the small towns of Moab. On the site of "Zoar," see Smith's 'Dictionary of the Bible,' but compare Canon Tristram in 'The Land of Moab.'
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Her little ones.--The Hebrew adjective is the same as the Zoar, the little one, of Genesis 19:20, and that city may probably have been, as in Isaiah 15:5, in the prophet's mind. In any case the "little ones" are cities, and not children.
