For, (A)because you trusted in your works and your treasures,
    you also shall be taken;
and (B)Chemosh (C)shall go into exile
    with (D)his priests and his officials.

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29 (A)Woe to you, O Moab!
    You are undone, O people of (B)Chemosh!
He has made his sons fugitives,
    and his daughters captives,
    to an Amorite king, Sihon.

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“Wail, O (A)Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
    Cry out, O daughters of (B)Rabbah!
(C)Put on sackcloth,
    lament, and run to and fro among the hedges!
For (D)Milcom shall go into exile,
    (E)with his priests and his officials.

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23 Thus says the Lord: (A)“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,

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“See the man who would not make
    God his refuge,
but (A)trusted in the abundance of his riches
    and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction

17 As for the rich in (A)this present age, charge them (B)not to be haughty, nor (C)to set their hopes on (D)the uncertainty of riches, but on God, (E)who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

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13 (A)You have plowed iniquity;
    you have reaped injustice;
    you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
    and in the multitude of your warriors,

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46 (A)Woe to you, O Moab!
    The people of (B)Chemosh are undone,
for your sons have been taken captive,
    and your daughters into captivity.

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13 Then (A)Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as (B)the house of Israel was ashamed of (C)Bethel, their confidence.

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The Idols of Babylon and the One True God

46 (A)Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
    their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
    as burdens on weary beasts.
They stoop; they bow down together;
    they cannot save the burden,
    but (B)themselves go into captivity.

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33 because they have[a] forsaken me (A)and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:33 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate he has; twice in this verse

(A)As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
    so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
    (B)‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
    and mourning I shall never see.’

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(A)“Son of man, say to (B)the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:

(C)“Because your heart is proud,
    and (D)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
    in the heart of the seas,’
yet (E)you are but a man, and no god,
    (F)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
(G)you are indeed wiser (H)than (I)Daniel;
    no secret is hidden from you;
by your wisdom and your understanding
    (J)you have made wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
    into your treasuries;
by your great wisdom in your trade
    you have increased your wealth,
    and (K)your heart has become proud in your wealth—

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12 (A)I shall kindle a fire (B)in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them (C)and carry them away captive. (D)And he shall clean the land of Egypt (E)as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.

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25 (A)This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord,
because (B)you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.

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(A)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    (B)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
They hatch adders' eggs;
    they weave the spider's web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
    and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
(C)Their webs will not serve as clothing;
    men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
    and deeds of violence are in their hands.

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(A)Trust in him at all times, O people;
    (B)pour out your heart before him;
    God is (C)a refuge for us. Selah

(D)Those of low estate are but a breath;
    those of high estate (E)are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
    (F)they are together lighter than a breath.
10 Put no trust in extortion;
    (G)set no vain hopes on robbery;
    (H)if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

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those who (A)trust in their wealth
    and boast of the abundance of their riches?
Truly no man (B)can ransom another,
    or (C)give to God (D)the price of his life,

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Blessed is the man who (A)makes
    the Lord his trust,
who does not turn to the proud,
    to those who (B)go astray after a lie!

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Then Solomon built a high place for (A)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for (B)Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

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24 Will you not possess what (A)Chemosh your god gives you to possess? (B)And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.

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