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Jeremiah 48
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Get Out While You Can!

48The Message on Moab from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel: "Doom to Nebo! Leveled to the ground! Kiriathaim demeaned and defeated, The mighty fortress reduced to a molehill,H4124H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1945H5015H7703H7156H3001H3920H4869H3001H2865 2Moab's glory—dust and ashes. Conspirators plot Heshbon's doom: 'Come, let's wipe Moab off the map.' Dungface Dimon will loudly lament, as killing follows killing.H8416H4124H2809H2803H7451H3212H3772H1471H1826H4086H2719H3212H310 3Listen! A cry out of Horonaim: 'Disaster—doom and more doom!'H6963H6818H2773H7701H1419H7667 4Moab will be shattered. Her cries will be heard clear down in Zoar.H4124H7665H6810H2201H8085 5Up the ascent of Luhith climbers weep, And down the descent from Horonaim, cries of loss and devastation.H4608H3872H1065H1065H5927H4174H2773H6862H8085H6818H7667 6Oh, run for your lives! Get out while you can! Survive by your wits in the wild!H5127H4422H5315H1961H6176H4057 7You trusted in thick walls and big money, yes? But it won't help you now. Your big god Chemosh will be hauled off, his priests and managers with him.H982H4639H214H3920H3645H3318H1473H3548H8269H3162 8A wrecker will wreck every city. Not a city will survive. The valley fields will be ruined, the plateau pastures destroyed, just as I told you.H7703H935H5892H5892H4422H6010H6H4334H8045H3068H559 9Cover the land of Moab with salt. Make sure nothing ever grows here again. Her towns will all be ghost towns. Nobody will ever live here again.H5414H6731H4124H5323H3318H5892H8047H3427H2004 10Sloppy work in GOD's name is cursed, and cursed all halfhearted use of the sword.H779H6213H4399H3068H7423H779H4513H2719H1818 11"Moab has always taken it easy— lazy as a dog in the sun, Never had to work for a living, never faced any trouble, Never had to grow up, never once worked up a sweat.H4124H7599H5271H8252H8105H7324H3627H3627H1980H1473H2940H5975H7381H4171 12But those days are a thing of the past. I'll put him to work at hard labor. That will wake him up to the world of hard knocks. That will smash his illusions.H3117H935H5002H3068H7971H6808H6808H7324H3627H5310H5035 13Moab will be as ashamed of god Chemosh as Israel was ashamed of her Bethel calf-gods, the calf-gods she thought were so great.H4124H954H3645H1004H3478H954H1008H4009 14For how long do you think you'll be saying, 'We're tough. We can beat anyone anywhere'?H559H1368H2428H582H4421 15The destruction of Moab has already begun. Her choice young soldiers are lying dead right now." The King's Decree— his full name, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies.H4124H7703H5927H5892H4005H970H3381H2874H5002H4428H8034H3068H6635 16"Yes. Moab's doom is on countdown, disaster targeted and launched.H343H4124H7138H935H7451H4116H3966 17Weep for Moab, friends and neighbors, all who know how famous he's been. Lament, 'His mighty scepter snapped in two like a toothpick, that magnificent royal staff!'H5439H5110H3045H8034H559H5797H4294H7665H8597H4731 18"Come down from your high horse, pampered beauty of Dibon. Sit in dog dung. The destroyer of Moab will come against you. He'll wreck your safe, secure houses.H1323H3427H1769H3381H3519H3427H6772H7703H4124H5927H7843H4013 19Stand on the roadside, pampered women of Aroer. Interview the refugees who are running away. Ask them, 'What's happened? And why?'H3427H6177H5975H1870H6822H7592H5127H4422H559H1961 20Moab will be an embarrassing memory, nothing left of the place. Wail and weep your eyes out! Tell the bad news along the Arnon river. Tell the world that Moab is no more.H4124H3001H2865H3213H2199H5046H769H4124H7703 21"My judgment will come to the plateau cities: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath;H4941H935H4334H776H2473H3096H4158 22on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim;H1769H5015H1015 23on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon;H7156H1014H1010 24on Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of Moab, far and near.H7152H1224H5892H776H4124H7350H7138 25"Moab's link to power is severed. Moab's arm is broken." GOD's Decree.H7161H4124H1438H2220H7665H5002H3068

The Sheer Nothingness of Moab

26"Turn Moab into a drunken sot, drunk on the wine of my wrath, a dung-faced drunk, filling the country with vomit—Moab a falling-down drunk, a joke in bad taste.H7937H1431H3068H4124H5606H6892H7814 27Wasn't it you, Moab, who made crude jokes over Israel? And when they were caught in bad company, didn't you cluck and gossip and snicker?H3478H7814H4672H1590H1767H1697H5110 28"Leave town! Leave! Look for a home in the cliffs, you who grew up in Moab. Try living like a dove who nests high in the river gorge.H3427H4124H5800H5892H7931H5553H3123H7077H5676H6354H6310 29"We've all heard of Moab's pride, that legendary pride, The strutting, bullying, puffed-up pride, the insufferable arrogance.H8085H1347H4124H3966H1343H1363H1346H1347H7312H3820 30I know"—GOD's Decree—"his rooster-crowing pride, the inflated claims, the sheer nothingness of Moab.H3045H5678H5002H3068H907H6213 31But I will weep for Moab, yes, I will mourn for the people of Moab. I will even mourn for the people of Kir-heres.H3213H4124H2199H4124H1897H582H7025 32I'll weep for the grapevines of Sibmah and join Jazer in her weeping— Grapevines that once reached the Dead Sea with tendrils as far as Jazer. Your summer fruit and your bursting grapes will be looted by brutal plunderers,H1612H7643H1058H1065H3270H5189H5674H3220H5060H3220H3270H7703H5307H7019H1210 33Lush Moab stripped of song and laughter. And yes, I'll shut down the winepresses, stop all the shouts and hurrahs of harvest.H8057H1524H622H3759H776H4124H3196H7673H3342H1869H1959H1959H1959 34"Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, and the people in Jahaz will hear the cries. They will hear them all the way from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.H2201H2809H500H3096H5414H6963H6820H2773H5697H7992H4325H5249H4923 35"I will put a stop in Moab"—GOD's Decree—"to all hiking to the high places to offer burnt sacrifices to the gods.H7673H4124H5002H3068H5927H1116H6999H430 36"My heart moans for Moab, for the men of Kir-heres, like soft flute sounds carried by the wind. They've lost it all. They've got nothing.H3820H1993H4124H2485H3820H1993H2485H582H7025H3502H6213H6 37"Everywhere you look are signs of mourning: heads shaved, beards cut, Hands scratched and bleeding, clothes ripped and torn.H7218H7144H2206H1639H3027H1417H4975H8242 38"In every house in Moab there'll be loud lamentation, on every street in Moab, loud lamentation. As with a pottery jug that no one wants, I'll smash Moab to bits." GOD's Decree.H4553H1406H4124H7339H7665H4124H3627H2656H5002H3068 39"Moab ruined! Moab shamed and ashamed to be seen! Moab a cruel joke! The stark horror of Moab!"H3213H2865H4124H6437H6203H954H4124H7814H4288H5439 40GOD's verdict on Moab. Indeed! "Look! An eagle is about to swoop down and spread its wings over Moab.H559H3068H1675H5404H6566H3671H4124 41The towns will be captured, the fortresses taken. Brave warriors will double up in pain, helpless to fight, like a woman giving birth to a baby.H7152H3920H4679H8610H1368H3820H4124H3117H3820H802H6887 42There'll be nothing left of Moab, nothing at all, because of his defiant arrogance against me.H4124H8045H5971H1431H3068 43"Terror and pit and trap are what you have facing you, Moab." GOD's Decree.H6343H6354H6341H3427H4124H5002H3068 44"A man running in terror will fall into a trap. A man climbing out of a pit will be caught in a trap. This is my agenda for Moab on doomsday." GOD's Decree.H5127H5211H6440H6343H5307H6354H5927H6354H3920H6341H935H4124H8141H6486H5002H3068 45"On the outskirts of Heshbon, refugees will pull up short, worn out. Fire will flame high from Heshbon, a firestorm raging from the capital of Sihon's kingdom. It will burn off Moab's eyebrows, will scorch the skull of the braggarts.H5127H5975H6738H2809H3581H784H3318H2809H3852H996H5511H398H6285H4124H6936H7588H1121 46That's all for you, Moab! You worshipers of Chemosh will be finished off! Your sons will be trucked off to prison camps; your daughters will be herded into exile.H188H4124H5971H3645H6H1121H3947H7628H1323H7633 47But yet there's a day that's coming when I'll put things right in Moab. "For now, that's the judgment on Moab."H7725H7622H4124H319H3117H5002H3068H2008H4941H4124


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