Jeremiah 48:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Israel was a laughingstock for you, though he was not caught among thieves, but whenever you spoke of him you shook your head!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For was not Israel [an object of] derision to you? Was he found among thieves–since whenever you speak of him you wag your head [in scorn]?

American Standard Version (1901)

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

Common English Bible

Wasn’t Israel the butt of your jokes? Didn’t you shake your head as if they were thieves caught in the act?

Catholic Public Domain Version

For Israel had been a derision to them. It was as if you had discovered him among thieves. Because of your own words, then, which you have spoken against him, you will be led away captive.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For Israel hath been a derision unto thee: as though thou hadst found him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive.

Jeremiah 48:27 Cross References

Job 16:4

I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.

Psalm 44:13

You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.

Psalm 64:8

Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake with horror.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Jeremiah 18:16

making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. All who pass by it are horrified and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 2:26

As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets,

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembers all the precious things that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy and there was no one to help her, the enemy looked on; they mocked over her downfall.

Ezekiel 25:8

Thus says the Lord God: Because Moab said, “The house of Judah is like all the other nations,”

Ezekiel 35:15

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir and all Edom, all of it. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:2

Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy said of you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our possession,”

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;

Zephaniah 2:10

This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they scoffed and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.

Zephaniah 2:8

I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.

Matthew 26:55

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were a rebel? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not arrest me.

Matthew 27:38

Then two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

Matthew 7:2

For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.