Jeremiah 48:26
Context48:26 “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.
Jeremiah 31:19
Context31:19 For after we turned away from you we repented.
After we came to our senses 3 we beat our breasts in sorrow. 4
We are ashamed and humiliated
because of the disgraceful things we did previously.’ 5


[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.
[31:19] 3 tn For this meaning of the verb see HAL 374 s.v. יָדַע Nif 5 or W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 129. REB translates “Now that I am submissive” relating the verb to a second root meaning “be submissive.” (See HALOT 375 s.v. II יָדַע and J. Barr, Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament, 19-21, for evidence for this verb. Other passages cited with this nuance are Judg 8:16; Prov 10:9; Job 20:20.)
[31:19] 4 tn Heb “I struck my thigh.” This was a gesture of grief and anguish (cf. Ezek 21:12 [21:17 HT]). The modern equivalent is “to beat the breast.”
[31:19] 5 tn Heb “because I bear the reproach of my youth.” For the plural referents see the note at the beginning of v. 18.