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 Jer 48:1 |
Concerning Moab: This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Woe to Nebo, for it will be ruined. Kiriathaim will be disgraced and captured; the stronghold [fn] will be disgraced and shattered. |
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Jer 48:2 |
Moab will be praised no more; in Heshbon [fn] men will plot her downfall: 'Come, let us put an end to that nation.' You too, O Madmen, [fn] will be silenced; the sword will pursue you. |
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Jer 48:3 |
Listen to the cries from Horonaim, cries of great havoc and destruction. |
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Jer 48:4 |
Moab will be broken; her little ones will cry out. [fn] |
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Jer 48:5 |
They go up the way to Luhith, weeping bitterly as they go; on the road down to Horonaim anguished cries over the destruction are heard. |
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Jer 48:6 |
Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush [fn] in the desert. |
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Jer 48:7 |
Since you trust in your deeds and riches, you too will be taken captive, and Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and officials. |
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Jer 48:8 |
The destroyer will come against every town, and not a town will escape. The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed, because the Lord has spoken. |
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Jer 48:9 |
Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste [fn]; her towns will become desolate, with no one to live in them. |
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Jer 48:10 |
"A curse on him who is lax in doing the Lord's work! A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed! |
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Jer 48:11 |
"Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another-- she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged. |
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Jer 48:12 |
But days are coming," declares the Lord, "when I will send men who pour from jars, and they will pour her out; they will empty her jars and smash her jugs. |
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Jer 48:13 |
Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel. |
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Jer 48:14 |
"How can you say, 'We are warriors, men valiant in battle'? |
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Jer 48:15 |
Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded; her finest young men will go down in the slaughter," declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty. |
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Jer 48:16 |
"The fall of Moab is at hand; her calamity will come quickly. |
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Jer 48:17 |
Mourn for her, all who live around her, all who know her fame; say, 'How broken is the mighty scepter, how broken the glorious staff!' |
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Jer 48:18 |
"Come down from your glory and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitants of the Daughter of Dibon, for he who destroys Moab will come up against you and ruin your fortified cities. |
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Jer 48:19 |
Stand by the road and watch, you who live in Aroer. Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping, ask them, 'What has happened?' |
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Jer 48:20 |
Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered. Wail and cry out! Announce by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed. |
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Jer 48:21 |
Judgment has come to the plateau-- to Holon, Jahzah and Mephaath, |
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Jer 48:22 |
to Dibon, Nebo and Beth Diblathaim, |
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Jer 48:23 |
to Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul and Beth Meon, |
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Jer 48:24 |
to Kerioth and Bozrah-- to all the towns of Moab, far and near. |
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Jer 48:25 |
Moab's horn [fn] is cut off; her arm is broken," declares the Lord. |
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Jer 48:26 |
"Make her drunk, for she has defied the Lord. Let Moab wallow in her vomit; let her be an object of ridicule. |
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Jer 48:27 |
Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her? |
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Jer 48:28 |
Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks, you who live in Moab. Be like a dove that makes its nest at the mouth of a cave. |
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Jer 48:29 |
"We have heard of Moab's pride-- her overweening pride and conceit, her pride and arrogance and the haughtiness of her heart. |
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Jer 48:30 |
I know her insolence but it is futile," declares the Lord, "and her boasts accomplish nothing. |
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Jer 48:31 |
Therefore I wail over Moab, for all Moab I cry out, I moan for the men of Kir Hareseth. |
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Jer 48:32 |
I weep for you, as Jazer weeps, O vines of Sibmah. Your branches spread as far as the sea; they reached as far as the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your ripened fruit and grapes. |
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Jer 48:33 |
Joy and gladness are gone from the orchards and fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy. Although there are shouts, they are not shouts of joy. |
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Jer 48:34 |
"The sound of their cry rises from Heshbon to Elealeh and Jahaz, from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim are dried up. |
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Jer 48:35 |
In Moab I will put an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods," declares the Lord. |
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Jer 48:36 |
"So my heart laments for Moab like a flute; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir Hareseth. The wealth they acquired is gone. |
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Jer 48:37 |
Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth. |
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Jer 48:38 |
On all the roofs in Moab and in the public squares there is nothing but mourning, for I have broken Moab like a jar that no one wants," declares the Lord. |
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Jer 48:39 |
"How shattered she is! How they wail! How Moab turns her back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule, an object of horror to all those around her." |
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Jer 48:40 |
This is what the Lord says: "Look! An eagle is swooping down, spreading its wings over Moab. |
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Jer 48:41 |
Kerioth [fn] will be captured and the strongholds taken. In that day the hearts of Moab's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor. |
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Jer 48:42 |
Moab will be destroyed as a nation because she defied the Lord. |
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Jer 48:43 |
Terror and pit and snare await you, O people of Moab," declares the Lord. |
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Jer 48:44 |
"Whoever flees from the terror will fall into a pit, whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare; for I will bring upon Moab the year of her punishment," declares the Lord. |
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Jer 48:45 |
"In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stand helpless, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, a blaze from the midst of Sihon; it burns the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of the noisy boasters. |
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Jer 48:46 |
Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed; your sons are taken into exile and your daughters into captivity. |
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Jer 48:47 |
"Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in days to come," declares the Lord. Here ends the judgment on Moab. |
NIV Footnotes:
- (48:1) Or / Misgab
- (48:2) The Hebrew for Heshbon sounds like the Hebrew for plot.
- (48:2) The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for be silenced.
- (48:4) Hebrew; Septuagint / proclaim it to Zoar
- (48:6) Or like Aroer
- (48:9) Or Give wings to Moab, / for she will fly away
- (48:25) Horn here symbolizes strength.
- (48:41) Or The cities
