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Jer.|48:1|-|Concerning |1a|Moab:Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
Woe to Nebo, for it is destroyed;Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is captured;
The lofty retreat is put to shame and dismayed.
Jer.|48:2|-|The praise of Moab is no more;In Heshbon they have devised evil against her, saying:
Come and let us cut her off from being a nation.You also, O |1|Madmen, will be brought to silence;
A sword will go after you.
Jer.|48:3|-|The sound of a cry from Horonaim,Desolation and great destruction!
Jer.|48:4|-|Moab is destroyed;Her young have caused a cry to be heard.
Jer.|48:5|-|For by the ascent of LuhithContinual weeping will go up;
For by the descent of HoronaimThey have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
Jer.|48:6|-|Flee, save your life,And be like a shrub in the wilderness.
Jer.|48:7|-|For because of your trust in your works and in your treasures,You also will be captured;
And |1a|Chemosh will go forth into exile;His priests and his princes together.
Jer.|48:8|-|And a destroyer will come to every city,And no city will escape;
The valley will also perish,And the plateau will be destroyed,
As Jehovah has said.
Jer.|48:9|-|Give wings to Moab,That she may |a|fly and go away;
And her cities will become a waste,Without inhabitant in them.
Jer.|48:10|-|Cursed is he who does the |a|work of Jehovah |1|negligently,And cursed is he who keeps his sword from blood.
Jer.|48:11|-|Moab has been at ease from his youth;And he is |a|settled on his lees
And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel;Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore his taste remains in him,And his scent is not changed.
Jer.|48:12|-|Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will send pourers to him, and they will pour and empty his vessels and shatter |1|his jars.
Jer.|48:13|-|And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of |a|Bethel, their confidence.
Jer.|48:14|-|How can you say, We are mighty menAnd valiant men for war?
Jer.|48:15|-|Moab has been destroyed,And its cities have gone up in smoke,
And its choice young men have gone down to slaughter,Declares the |a|King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
Jer.|48:16|-|The calamity of Moab is near to coming,And his affliction hastens quickly.
Jer.|48:17|-|Lament for him, all who are around himAnd all who know his name;
Say, How the strong rod is broken,The glorious staff.
Jer.|48:18|-|Come down from glory and sit in thirst,O daughter who dwells in Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;He has destroyed your strongholds.
Jer.|48:19|-|Stand by the way and watch,O inhabitant of Aroer;
Ask him who flees and her who escapes,And say, What has happened?
Jer.|48:20|-|Moab is put to shame, for it is shattered.Howl and cry out;
Declare in ArnonThat Moab is devastated.
Jer.|48:21|-|And judgment has come upon the land of the Plateau, on Holon and on Jahzah and on Mephaath
Jer.|48:22|-|And on Dibon and on Nebo and on Beth-diblathaim
Jer.|48:23|-|And on Kiriathaim and on Beth-gamul and on Beth-meon
Jer.|48:24|-|And on Kerioth and on Bozrah and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
Jer.|48:25|-|The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares Jehovah.
Jer.|48:26|-|Make him drunk, because he |a|magnified himself against Jehovah; so Moab will wallow in his vomit and will also be in derision.
Jer.|48:27|-|For was not Israel a derision to you? Or was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
Jer.|48:28|-|Leave the cities and dwell in the rock,O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a dove who nestsOn the sides of the mouth of the pit.
Jer.|48:29|-|We have heard of the |a|pride of Moab—He is extremely proud—
Of his loftiness and his pride and his arroganceAnd of the haughtiness of his heart.
Jer.|48:30|-|I know of his insolence, declares Jehovah;His boastings are all untrue;
They have accomplished nothing.
Jer.|48:31|-|Therefore I will |a|wail for Moab,I will even cry out for all Moab;
There will be mourning for the men of Kir-heres.
Jer.|48:32|-|With more than the weeping of JazerI will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah.
Your shoots have crossed over to the sea;They have reached as far as the sea, to Jazer;
On your summer fruit and on your vintageThe destroyer has fallen.
Jer.|48:33|-|Rejoicing and exultation are taken awayFrom the fruited field and from the land of Moab.
And I have caused the wine from the wine presses to cease;No one will tread them with the harvest shout;
The harvest shout will be no harvest shout.
Jer.|48:34|-|From the cry of Heshbon as far as Elealeh, even as far as Jahaz, they have uttered their voice, from Zoar as far as Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become a devastation.
Jer.|48:35|-|And I will bring to an end in Moab the one who offers up in high places and burns incense to his gods, declares Jehovah.
Jer.|48:36|-|Therefore My heart will moan for Moab like flutes; for the men of Kir-heres My heart will also moan like flutes. As a result, the abundance he has produced has perished.
Jer.|48:37|-|For every head is bald, and every beard is shaved off; there are cuts on all the hands, and sackcloth on the loins.
Jer.|48:38|-|On all the roofs of Moab and in her open squares there is wailing everywhere, for I have broken Moab like a |a|vessel which no one desires, declares Jehovah.
Jer.|48:39|-|How it is shattered! they howl. How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.
Jer.|48:40|-|For thus says Jehovah,One will swoop down like an |a|eagle
And spread its |b|wings against Moab.
Jer.|48:41|-||1|Kerioth is captured,And the strongholds are seized,
And the heart of the mighty men of Moab in that dayWill be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Jer.|48:42|-|And Moab will be destroyed from being a people,Because he magnified himself against Jehovah.
Jer.|48:43|-||a|Dread, pit, and snareAre upon you, O inhabitant of Moab,
Declares Jehovah.
Jer.|48:44|-|He who flees from dreadWill fall into the pit,
And he who comes up out of the pitWill be taken in the snare;
For I will bring upon her, upon Moab,The year of their punishment, declares Jehovah.
Jer.|48:45|-|In the shadow of HeshbonThose who flee stand without strength;
|a|For fire has gone forth from HeshbonAnd a flame from the midst of Sihon;
And it has consumed the corner of MoabAnd the top of the head of the sons of tumult.
Jer.|48:46|-|Woe to you, O Moab!The people of Chemosh have perished,
For your sons have been taken captive,And your daughters have gone into captivity.
Jer.|48:47|-||1|But I will |a|turn again the captivity of MoabIn the last days, declares Jehovah.
Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
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