Sea of Jazer

The Sea of Jazer appears once in Scripture in Jeremiah's long oracle of judgment against Moab: "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" (Jeremiah 48:32). The verse pictures the celebrated Moabite vineyards of Sibmah spreading so vigorously that their tendrils reached the lake near Jazer in the Transjordan highlands — a sign of pre-judgment fertility about to be cut down by Babylonian invasion. The "Sea" was likely a small natural lake or seasonal marshland in the Gilead-Moab plateau, location now uncertain.