Jeremiah 48

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Judgment on Moab

48 ^(A)Concerning Moab.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

“Woe to ^(B)Nebo, for it is laid waste!
    ^(C)Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken;
the fortress is put to shame ^(D)and broken down;
²    the renown of Moab is no more.
In ^(E)Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
    ‘Come, let us cut her off ^(F)from being a nation!’
You also, O ^(G)Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
    the sword shall pursue you.

³“A voice! A cry from ^(H)Horonaim,
    ‘Desolation and great destruction!’
⁴Moab is destroyed;
    her little ones have made a cry.
⁵^(I)For at the ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;^[a]
for ^(J)at the descent of Horonaim
    they have heard the distressed cry^[b] of destruction.
⁶Flee! Save yourselves!
    You will be like ^(K)a juniper in the desert!
⁷For, ^(L)because you trusted in your works and your treasures,
    you also shall be taken;
and ^(M)Chemosh ^(N)shall go into exile
    with ^(O)his priests and his officials.
⁸^(P)The destroyer shall come upon every city,
    and no city shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
    and ^(Q)the plain shall be destroyed,
    as the Lord has spoken.

⁹“Give wings to Moab,
for she would fly away;
her cities shall become a desolation,
with no inhabitant in them.

¹⁰^(R)“Cursed is he who does ^(S)the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

¹¹“Moab has been at ease from his youth
    and has ^(T)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.

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^[c] jars in pieces. ¹³Then ^(U)Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as ^(V)the house of Israel was ashamed of ^(W)Bethel, their confidence.

¹⁴“How do you say, ‘We are heroes
    and mighty men of war’?
¹⁵The destroyer of ^(X)Moab and his cities has come up,
    and the choicest of his young men have ^(Y)gone down to slaughter,
    declares ^(Z)the King, ^(AA)whose name is the Lord of hosts.
¹⁶The calamity of Moab is near at hand,
    and his affliction hastens swiftly.
¹⁷^(AB)Grieve for him, all you who are around him,
    and all who know his name;
say, ^(AC)‘How the mighty scepter is broken,
    the glorious staff.’

¹⁸^(AD)“Come down from your glory,
    and sit on the parched ground,
    O inhabitant of ^(AE)Dibon!
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
    he has destroyed your strongholds.
¹⁹^(AF)Stand by the way ^(AG)and watch,
    O inhabitant of ^(AH)Aroer!
Ask him who flees and her who escapes;
    say, ‘What has happened?’
²⁰Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
    ^(AI)wail and cry!
Tell it beside ^(AJ)the Arnon,
    that ^(AK)Moab is laid waste.

²¹“Judgment has come upon ^(AL)the tableland, upon Holon, and ^(AM)Jahzah, and Mephaath, ²²and ^(AN)Dibon, and ^(AO)Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, ²³and ^(AP)Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and ^(AQ)Beth-meon, ²⁴and ^(AR)Kerioth, and ^(AS)Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. ²⁵^(AT)The horn of Moab is cut off, and ^(AU)his arm is broken, declares the Lord.

²⁶^(AV)“Make him drunk, ^(AW)because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall ^(AX)wallow in his vomit, ^(AY)and he too shall be held in derision. ²⁷^(AZ)Was not Israel a derision to you? ^(BA)Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him ^(BB)you wagged your head?

²⁸^(BC)“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
    O inhabitants of Moab!
Be ^(BD)like the dove that nests
    in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
²⁹^(BE)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.
³⁰I know his insolence, declares the Lord;
    ^(BF)his boasts are false,
    his deeds are false.
³¹^(BG)Therefore I wail for Moab;
    I cry out for all Moab;
    for the men of ^(BH)Kir-hareseth I mourn.
³²More than for ^(BI)Jazer I weep for you,
    ^(BJ)O vine of ^(BK)Sibmah!
^(BL)Your branches passed over the sea,
    reached to the Sea of ^(BM)Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
    the destroyer has fallen.
³³^(BN)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.

³⁴^(BO)“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to ^(BP)Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate. ³⁵And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the Lord, him who offers sacrifice in ^(BQ)the high place and makes offerings to his god. ³⁶Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of ^(BR)Kir-hareseth. ^(BS)Therefore the riches they gained have perished.

³⁷^(BT)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. ^(BU)On all the hands are gashes, and ^(BV)around the waist is sackcloth. ³⁸On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like ^(BW)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord. ³⁹How it is broken! How they wail! ^(BX)How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab ^(BY)has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”

⁴⁰For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ^(BZ)one shall fly swiftly like an eagle
    ^(CA)and spread his wings against Moab;
⁴¹^(CB)the cities shall be taken
    and the strongholds seized.
^(CC)The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
    like the heart of ^(CD)a woman in her birth pains;
⁴²Moab shall be ^(CE)destroyed and be no longer a people,
    because ^(CF)he magnified himself against the Lord.
⁴³^(CG)Terror, pit, and snare
    are before you, O inhabitant of Moab!
declares the Lord.
⁴⁴He who flees from the terror
    shall fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit
    shall be caught in the snare.
^(CH)For I will bring these things upon Moab,
    the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.

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 ^(CI)the forehead of Moab,
    the crown of ^(CJ)the sons of tumult.
⁴⁶^(CK)Woe to you, O Moab!
    The people of ^(CL)Chemosh are undone,
for your sons have been taken captive,
    and your daughters into captivity.
⁴⁷^(CM)Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
    in the latter days, declares the Lord.”
Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

Footnotes

Jeremiah 48:5 Hebrew weeping goes up with weeping
Jeremiah 48:5 Septuagint (compare Isaiah 15:5) heard the cry
Jeremiah 48:12 Septuagint, Aquila; Hebrew their

Ezekiel 25:8-11

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Prophecy Against Moab and Seir

⁸“Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(A)Moab and ^(B)Seir^[a] said, ‘Behold, the ^(C)house of Judah is like all the other nations,’ ⁹therefore ^(D)I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, ^(E)Beth-jeshimoth, ^(F)Baal-meon, and ^(G)Kiriathaim. ¹⁰I will give it ^(H)along with the Ammonites ^(I)to the people of the East as a possession, ^(J)that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations, ¹¹^(K)and I will execute judgments upon Moab. ^(L)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 25:8 Septuagint lacks and Seir

Amos 2:1-3

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2 Thus says the Lord:

^(A)“For three transgressions of ^(B)Moab,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^[a]
because ^(C)he burned to lime
    the bones of the king of Edom.
²So I will send a fire upon Moab,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(D)Kerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
    amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
³^(E)I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
    and will kill ^(F)all its princes^[b] with him,”
says the Lord.

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Amos 2:1 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 4, 6
Amos 2:3 Or officials

Zephaniah 2:8-9

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⁸“I have heard ^(A)the taunts of Moab
    and ^(B)the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
    and made boasts ^(C)against their territory.
⁹Therefore, ^(D)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become ^(E)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites ^(F)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”