Jeremiah 48 · Verse 42

Jeremiah 48:42

And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord.
Jeremiah 48:42, King James Version

Jeremiah 48:42 in other translations

BSBMoab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.
WEBMoab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
ASVAnd Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.
YLTAnd Moab hath been destroyed from being a people, For against Jehovah he exerted himself.
DARBYAnd Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.
BBEAnd Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.
WebsterAnd Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

What does Jeremiah 48:42 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
42. (See on Jr 48:26).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 42 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people - They shall not have a king or civil governor: and I doubt whether there be any evidence that they were ever reinstated in their national character. They were captivated by the Chaldeans; and probably many returned with the Jews on the edict of Cyrus: but as to their being an independent nation after this, where is the positive proof?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 48:14-47

. The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of…

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Jeremiah 48:42 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְנִשְׁמַ֥דve.nish.Madand it will be destroyedH8045
מוֹאָ֖בmo.'AvMoabH4124
מֵעָ֑םme.'Amfrom a peopleH5971
כִּ֥יkiforH3588
עַל\־'al-onH5921
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
הִגְדִּֽיל\׃hig.Dilit has magnified itselfH1431

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 48:42

  • Jeremiah 48:2

    There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

  • Jeremiah 30:11

    For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

  • Isaiah 7:8

    For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

  • Jeremiah 48:26-30

    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. For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth. We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. …

  • Isaiah 37:23

    Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Psalms 83:4-8

    They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; …

  • Daniel 11:36

    And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

  • Revelation 13:6

    And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

  • Matthew 7:2

    For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

  • Proverbs 16:18

    Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

  • Esther 3:8-13

    And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them. If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries. And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. …

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:4

    Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Moab.Moab has long since ceased to be a nation; while the Jews, agreeably to the Divine promise, (ch. 46:28,) though successively subdued and oppressed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Syro-Macedonians, and Romans, (which have also all passed away, and are no more,) and dispersed over the face of the earth, subsist to this day as a distinct people from all the nations of the world!
from.
2; 30:11; Es 3:8-13; Ps 83:4-8; Isa 7:8; Mt 7:2
magnified.
26-30; Pr 16:18; Isa 37:23; Da 11:36; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Jeremiah 48:41

    Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

  • Jeremiah 48:42

    And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 48:43

    Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 48:42 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Moab será destruído para dejar de ser pueblo: porque se engrandeció contra Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Moab sera détruit de manière à n’être plus un peuple, car il s’est exalté contre l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Moab wird vertilgt werden, daß es kein Volk mehr sei, weil es großgetan hat wider Jehova.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et cessabit Moab esse populus, quoniam contra Dominum gloriatus est.