Jeremiah 48
48Concerning 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;H4124H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1945H5015H7703H7156H3001H3920H4869H3001H28652the 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.H8416H4124H2809H2803H7451H3212H3772H1471H1826H4086H2719H3212H3103"A voice! A cry from Horonaim, 'Desolation and great destruction!'H6963H6818H2773H7701H1419H76674Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry.H4124H7665H6810H2201H80855For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction.H4608H3872H1065H1065H5927H4174H2773H6862H8085H6818H76676Flee! Save yourselves! You will be like a juniper in the desert!H5127H4422H5315H1961H6176H40577For, 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.H982H4639H214H3920H3645H3318H1473H3548H8269H31628The 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.H7703H935H5892H5892H4422H6010H6H4334H8045H3068H5599"Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.H5414H6731H4124H5323H3318H5892H8047H3427H200410"Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.H779H6213H4399H3068H7423H779H4513H2719H181811"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.H4124H7599H5271H8252H8105H7324H3627H3627H1980H1473H2940H5975H7381H417112"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 jars in pieces.H3117H935H5002H3068H7971H6808H6808H7324H3627H5310H503513Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.H4124H954H3645H1004H3478H954H1008H400914"How do you say, 'We are heroes and mighty men of war'?H559H1368H2428H582H442115The 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.H4124H7703H5927H5892H4005H970H3381H2874H5002H4428H8034H3068H663516The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly.H343H4124H7138H935H7451H4116H396617Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all who know his name; say, 'How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.'H5439H5110H3045H8034H559H5797H4294H7665H8597H473118"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.H1323H3427H1769H3381H3519H3427H6772H7703H4124H5927H7843H401319Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, 'What has happened?'H3427H6177H5975H1870H6822H7592H5127H4422H559H196120Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.H4124H3001H2865H3213H2199H5046H769H4124H770321"Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,H4941H935H4334H776H2473H3096H415822and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,H1769H5015H101523and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,H7156H1014H101024and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.H7152H1224H5892H776H4124H7350H713825The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the LORD.H7161H4124H1438H2220H7665H5002H306826"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.H7937H1431H3068H4124H5606H6892H781427Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?H3478H7814H4672H1590H1767H1697H511028"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.H3427H4124H5800H5892H7931H5553H3123H7077H5676H6354H631029We 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.H8085H1347H4124H3966H1343H1363H1346H1347H7312H382030I know his insolence, declares the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false.H3045H5678H5002H3068H907H621331Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn.H3213H4124H2199H4124H1897H582H702532More 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.H1612H7643H1058H1065H3270H5189H5674H3220H5060H3220H3270H7703H5307H7019H121033Gladness 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.H8057H1524H622H3759H776H4124H3196H7673H3342H1869H1959H1959H195934"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.H2201H2809H500H3096H5414H6963H6820H2773H5697H7992H4325H5249H492335And 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.H7673H4124H5002H3068H5927H1116H6999H43036Therefore 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.H3820H1993H4124H2485H3820H1993H2485H582H7025H3502H6213H637"For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.H7218H7144H2206H1639H3027H1417H4975H824238On 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.H4553H1406H4124H7339H7665H4124H3627H2656H5002H306839How 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."H3213H2865H4124H6437H6203H954H4124H7814H4288H543940For thus says the LORD: "Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;H559H3068H1675H5404H6566H3671H412441the 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;H7152H3920H4679H8610H1368H3820H4124H3117H3820H802H688742Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.H4124H8045H5971H1431H306843Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the LORD.H6343H6354H6341H3427H4124H5002H306844He 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.H5127H5211H6440H6343H5307H6354H5927H6354H3920H6341H935H4124H8141H6486H5002H306845"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.H5127H5975H6738H2809H3581H784H3318H2809H3852H996H5511H398H6285H4124H6936H7588H112146Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.H188H4124H5971H3645H6H1121H3947H7628H1323H763347Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.H7725H7622H4124H319H3117H5002H3068H2008H4941H4124
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