Jer 48
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Of Moab. Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste;
Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
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The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come,
and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to
silence: the sword shall pursue you.
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The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
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Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent
of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
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Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
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For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall
be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
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And the destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley
also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as YHWH has spoken.
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Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become
a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
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Cursed be he who does the work of YHWH negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back
his sword from blood.
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Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not
been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore
his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will send to him them that pour
off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their
bottles in pieces.
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And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el
their confidence.
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How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?
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Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men
are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is YHWH of hosts.
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The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens fast.
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All you that are round about him, bemoan him, and all you that know his name; say,
How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
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O you daughter that dwell in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst;
for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
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O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him whom flees, and her that
escapes; say, What has been done?
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Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell you it by the Arnon,
that Moab is laid waste.
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And judgment is come upon the plain country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon
Mephaath,
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and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,
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and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
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and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far
or near.
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The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says YHWH.
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Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself against YHWH: and Moab shall wallow
in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
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For was not Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as
you speak of him, you wag the head.
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O you inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the
dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
29
We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his
pride, and his arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart.
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I know his anger, says YHWH, that it is nothing; his boastings have wrought nothing.
31
Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres
shall they mourn.
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With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah: your branches
passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon your summer fruits
and upon your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
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And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab;
and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting;
the shouting shall be no shouting.
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From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice,
from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall
become desolate.
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Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says YHWH, him whom offers in the high place,
and him whom burns incense to his gods.
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Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for
the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.
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For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings,
and upon the loins sackcloth.
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On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every
where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delights, says YHWH.
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How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame!
so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.
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For thus says YHWH: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings
against Moab.
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Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men
of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
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And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself
against YHWH.
43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says YHWH.
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He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the
pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year
of their visitation, says YHWH.
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They that fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone
forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner
of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
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Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away
captive, and your daughters into captivity.
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Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says YHWH. Thus far
is the judgment of Moab.