Jeremiah 48:3
Good News Translation
The people of Horonaim cry out, 'Violence! Destruction!'

New Revised Standard Version
Hark! a cry from Horonaim, “Desolation and great destruction!”

Contemporary English Version
The people of Horonaim will cry for help, as their town is attacked and destroyed.

New American Bible
Listen! an outcry from Horonaim, “Ruin and great destruction!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.

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Jeremiah 4:20,21 Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the earth is laid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a moment. . . .

Jeremiah 47:2 Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of the north, and they shall be as an overflowing torrent, and they shall cover the land, and all that is therein, the city and the inhabitants thereof: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,

Isaiah 15:2,8 The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven. . . .

Isaiah 16:7-11 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes. . . .

Isaiah 22:4 Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.

Horonaim

Jeremiah 48:5,34 For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction. . . .

Isaiah 15:5 My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.

Context
The Judgment on Moab
2There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee. 3A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.4Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.…
Cross References
Isaiah 15:5
My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.

Jeremiah 20:16
Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide:

Jeremiah 48:4
Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.

Jeremiah 48:5
For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction.

Jeremiah 48:34
From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale, and to Jasa, they have uttered their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, as a heifer of three years old: the waters also of Nemrim shall be very bad.

Jeremiah 51:54
The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

Jeremiah 48:2
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