Yeremia 48:20
Konteks48:20 They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen!
Wail and cry out in mourning!
Announce along the Arnon River
that Moab has been destroyed.’
Yeremia 48:26
Konteks48:26 “Moab has vaunted itself against me.
So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath 1
until he splashes 2 around in his own vomit,
until others treat him as a laughingstock.
[48:26] 1 tn Heb “Make him drunk because he has magnified himself against the
[48:26] 2 tn The meaning of this word is uncertain. It is usually used of clapping the hands or the thigh in helpless anger or disgust. Hence J. Bright (Jeremiah [AB], 321) paraphrases “shall vomit helplessly.” HALOT 722 s.v. II סָפַק relates this to an Aramaic word and see a homonym meaning “vomit” or “spew out.” The translation is that of BDB 706 s.v. סָפַק Qal.3, “splash (fall with a splash),” from the same root that refers to slapping or clapping the thigh.