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Jeremiah 48 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Judgment on Moab

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:1 - Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
“Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste!
Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken;
the fortress is put to shame and broken down;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2 - the renown of Moab is no more.
In Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’
You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
the sword shall pursue you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:3 - “A voice! A cry from Horonaim,
‘Desolation and great destruction!’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:4 - Moab is destroyed;
her little ones have made a cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:5 - For at the ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;[fn]
for at the descent of Horonaim
they have heard the distressed cry[fn] of destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:6 - Flee! Save yourselves!
You will be like a juniper in the desert!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:7 - For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures,
you also shall be taken;
and Chemosh shall go into exile
with his priests and his officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - The destroyer shall come upon every city,
and no city shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
and the plain shall be destroyed,
as the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:9 - “Give wings to Moab,
for she would fly away;
her cities shall become a desolation,
with no inhabitant in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:10 - “Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:11 - “Moab has been at ease from his youth
and has settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
and his scent is not changed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:12 - “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his[fn] jars in pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:13 - Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:14 - “How do you say, ‘We are heroes
and mighty men of war’?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up,
and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter,
declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16 - The calamity of Moab is near at hand,
and his affliction hastens swiftly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:17 - Grieve for him, all you who are around him,
and all who know his name;
say, ‘How the mighty scepter is broken,
the glorious staff.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:18 - “Come down from your glory,
and sit on the parched ground,
O inhabitant of Dibon!
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
he has destroyed your strongholds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:19 - Stand by the way and watch,
O inhabitant of Aroer!
Ask him who flees and her who escapes;
say, ‘What has happened?’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:20 - Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
wail and cry!
Tell it beside the Arnon,
that Moab is laid waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:21 - “Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:22 - and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:23 - and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:24 - and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:25 - The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:26 - “Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the LORD, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:27 - Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - “Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
O inhabitants of Moab!
Be like the dove that nests
in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:29 - We have heard of the pride of Moab—
he is very proud—
of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,
and the haughtiness of his heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:30 - I know his insolence, declares the LORD;
his boasts are false,
his deeds are false.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:31 - Therefore I wail for Moab;
I cry out for all Moab;
for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:32 - More than for Jazer I weep for you,
O vine of Sibmah!
Your branches passed over the sea,
reached to the Sea of Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
the destroyer has fallen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:33 - Gladness and joy have been taken away
from the fruitful land of Moab;
I have made the wine cease from the winepresses;
no one treads them with shouts of joy;
the shouting is not the shout of joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34 - “From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:35 - And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and makes offerings to his god.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:36 - Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:37 - “For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:39 - How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:40 - For thus says the LORD:
“Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle
and spread his wings against Moab;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:41 - the cities shall be taken
and the strongholds seized.
The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
like the heart of a woman in her birth pains;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:42 - Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people,
because he magnified himself against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:43 - Terror, pit, and snare
are before you, O inhabitant of Moab!
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:44 - He who flees from the terror
shall fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit
shall be caught in the snare.
For I will bring these things upon Moab,
the year of their punishment,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:45 - “In the shadow of Heshbon
fugitives stop without strength,
for fire came out from Heshbon,
flame from the house of Sihon;
it has destroyed the forehead of Moab,
the crown of the sons of tumult.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:46 - Woe to you, O Moab!
The people of Chemosh are undone,
for your sons have been taken captive,
and your daughters into captivity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:47 - Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
in the latter days, declares the LORD.”
Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew weeping goes up with weeping
Septuagint (compare Isaiah 15:5) heard the cry
Septuagint, Aquila; Hebrew their
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