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Jeremiah

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Chapter 48

1Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame and captured; the fortress is put to shame and broken down. 2The renown of Moab is no more! In Heshbon they planned evil 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. 3“A voice of crying comes from Horonaim, ‘Desolation and great destruction!’ 4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry to be heard. 5For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping bitterly; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. 6Flee! Save your lives! Be like a wild ass in the desert! 7For because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be captured, and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials. 8The 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. 9“Give wings to Moab, for she would flee away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them. 10“Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed! 11“Moab has been at ease from his youth, settled on his lees, not emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. 12Therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him out and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces. 13Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. 14“How can you say, ‘We are heroes, mighty men for war’? 15Moab is laid waste, and his cities have gone up in smoke, and the flower of his young men have gone down to the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 16The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly. 17Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all you who know his name; say, ‘How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff!’ 18“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. 19Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, ‘What has happened?’ 20Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; howl and cry! Tell it in Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. 21“Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath, 22and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, 23and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon, 24and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. 25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the LORD. 26“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. 27Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him, you wagged your head? 28“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the mouth of a gorge. 29“We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—of his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30I know his insolence, declares the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false. 31Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-heres I mourn. 32More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea; they reached to Jazer; on your summer fruits and your grape harvest the destroyer has fallen. 33Gladness and joy have been removed from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the wine from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy. 34“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, to Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim are a desolation. 35And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and him who burns incense to his gods. 36Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-heres; for the riches they gained have perished. 37For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and on the waists is sackcloth. 38On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which I have no pleasure, declares the LORD. 39“How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab will become a derision and a horror to all who are around him.” 40For thus says the LORD: “Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab; 41Kerioth shall be taken, and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab in that day shall be like the heart of a woman in her birth pains. 42Moab shall be destroyed and cease to be a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD. 43Terror, pit, and snare are upon 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. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the LORD. 45“In Heshbon fugitives stop exhausted, but fire comes out from Heshbon, a flame from the midst of Sihon; it devours the corner of Moab, and the crown of the heads of the sons of tumult. 46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity. 47Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD.” Thus far is the judgment on Moab.