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Jeremiah 48:32
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses Moab, using the metaphor of a vine for Sibmah, immediately after vowing to wail for the entire nation and the men of Kir-heres.
The words — אֶבְכֶּה (ʾevkeh) translates to "I will weep," while מִ/בְּכִ֨י (mi./beḵi) means "more than [the] weeping of." The prophet pairs these forms to establish a comparative intensity of mourning over Sibmah.
The thread — Isaiah 16:8 also laments the withered grapevines of Sibmah, while Numbers 21:32 records Israel's capture of Jazer during the wilderness campaign.
Why it lands — The text declares that divine judgment will strip a once-expansive agricultural region of its harvest. The reader must recognize that geographical prosperity does not shield against the stated decree of destruction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
- Numbers 21:32 After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Joshua 13:19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,
- Numbers 32:1 Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
- Numbers 32:35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
- Numbers 32:38 as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.
- Joshua 21:39 Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.
- Jeremiah 40:10 As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
- Jeremiah 48:8 The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.
- Jeremiah 48:15 Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.