King James Version
“They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. tumultuous: Heb. children of noise”
Jeremiah 48:45 · KJV
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. tumultuous: Heb. children of noise
Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives. captives, and: Heb. in captivity, etc
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“stood”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“because of the force”
H3581vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce)
“They that fled”
H5127to flit, i.e., vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“shall come forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“from the midst”
H996between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“the corner”
H6285properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e., direction, region, extremity
“ones”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
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