| Jer. 48:1 |
Concerning Moab: / Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: / Woe to Nebo, for it is destroyed; / Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is captured; / The lofty retreat is put to shame and dismayed. |
| Jer. 48:2 |
The praise of Moab is no more; / In Heshbon they have devised evil against her, [saying:] / Come and let us cut her off from being a nation. / You also, O Madmen, will be brought to silence; / A sword will go after you. |
| Jer. 48:3 |
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, / Desolation and great destruction! |
| Jer. 48:4 |
Moab is destroyed; / Her young have caused a cry to be heard. |
| Jer. 48:5 |
For by the ascent of Luhith / Continual weeping will go up; / For by the descent of Horonaim / They have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. |
| Jer. 48:6 |
Flee, save your life, / And be like a shrub in the wilderness. |
| Jer. 48:7 |
For because of your trust in your works and in your treasures, / You also will be captured; / And Chemosh will go forth into exile; / His priests and his princes together. |
| Jer. 48:8 |
And a destroyer will come to every city, / And no city will escape; / The valley will also perish, / And the plateau will be destroyed, / As Jehovah has said. |
| Jer. 48:9 |
Give wings to Moab, / That she may fly [and] go away; / And her cities will become a waste, / Without inhabitant in them. |
| Jer. 48:10 |
Cursed is he who does the work of Jehovah negligently, / And cursed is he who keeps his sword from blood. |
| Jer. 48:11 |
Moab has been at ease from his youth; / And he is settled on his lees / And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel; / Nor has he gone into exile. / Therefore his taste remains in him, / And his scent is not changed. |
| Jer. 48:12 |
Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will send pourers to him, and they will pour him out and empty his vessels and shatter his jars. |
| Jer. 48:13 |
And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. |
| Jer. 48:14 |
How can you say, We are mighty men / And valiant men for war? |
| Jer. 48:15 |
Moab has been destroyed, / And its cities have gone up [in smoke,] / And its choice young men have gone down to slaughter, / Declares the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts. |
| Jer. 48:16 |
The calamity of Moab is near to coming, / And his affliction hastens quickly. |
| Jer. 48:17 |
Lament for him, all who are around [him] / And all who know his name; / Say, How the strong rod is broken, / The glorious staff. |
| Jer. 48:18 |
Come down from glory and sit in thirst, / O daughter who dwells in Dibon, / For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; / He has destroyed your strongholds. |
| Jer. 48:19 |
Stand by the way and watch, / O inhabitant of Aroer; / Ask him who flees and her who escapes, / [And] say, What has happened? |
| Jer. 48:20 |
Moab is put to shame, for it is shattered. / Howl and cry out; / Declare in Arnon / That Moab is devastated. |
| Jer. 48:21 |
And judgment has come upon the land of the Plateau, on Holon and on Jahzah and on Mephaath |
| Jer. 48:22 |
And on Dibon and on Nebo and on Beth-diblathaim |
| Jer. 48:23 |
And on Kiriathaim and on Beth-gamul and on Beth-meon |
| Jer. 48:24 |
And on Kerioth and on Bozrah and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. |
| Jer. 48:25 |
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares Jehovah. |
| Jer. 48:26 |
Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Jehovah; so Moab will wallow in his vomit and will also be in derision. |
| Jer. 48:27 |
For was not Israel a derision to you? Or was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake [your head.] |
| Jer. 48:28 |
Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, / O inhabitants of Moab, / And be like a dove who nests / On the sides of the mouth of the pit. |
| Jer. 48:29 |
We have heard of the pride of Moab-- / He is extremely proud-- / Of his loftiness and his pride and his arrogance / And of the haughtiness of his heart. |
| Jer. 48:30 |
I know of his insolence, declares Jehovah; / His boastings are [all] untrue; / They have accomplished nothing. |
| Jer. 48:31 |
Therefore I will wail for Moab, / I will even cry out for all Moab; / There will be mourning for the men of Kir-heres. |
| Jer. 48:32 |
With more than the weeping of Jazer / I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah. / Your shoots have crossed over [to] the sea; / They have reached as far as the sea, to Jazer; / On your summer fruit and on your vintage / The destroyer has fallen. |
| Jer. 48:33 |
Rejoicing and exultation are taken away / From the fruited field and from the land of Moab. / And I have caused the wine from the wine presses to cease; / No one will tread [them] with the harvest shout; / The harvest shout will be no harvest shout. |
| Jer. 48:34 |
From the cry of Heshbon as far as Elealeh, even as far as Jahaz, they have uttered their voice, from Zoar as far as Horonaim [and] to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become a devastation. |
| Jer. 48:35 |
And I will bring to an end in Moab the one who offers up in high places and burns incense to his gods, declares Jehovah. |
| Jer. 48:36 |
Therefore My heart will moan for Moab like flutes; for the men of Kir-heres My heart will also moan like flutes. As a result, the abundance he has produced has perished. |
| Jer. 48:37 |
For every head is bald, and every beard is shaved off; there are cuts on all the hands, and sackcloth on the loins. |
| Jer. 48:38 |
On all the roofs of Moab and in her open squares there is wailing everywhere, for I have broken Moab like a vessel which no one desires, declares Jehovah. |
| Jer. 48:39 |
How it is shattered! they howl. How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a terror to all who are around him. |
| Jer. 48:40 |
For thus says Jehovah, / One will swoop down like an eagle / And spread its wings against Moab. |
| Jer. 48:41 |
Kerioth is captured, / And the strongholds are seized, / And the heart of the mighty men of Moab in that day / Will be like the heart of a woman in labor. |
| Jer. 48:42 |
And Moab will be destroyed from being a people, / Because he magnified himself against Jehovah. |
| Jer. 48:43 |
Dread, pit, and snare / Are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, / Declares Jehovah. |
| Jer. 48:44 |
He who flees from dread / Will fall into the pit, / And he who comes up out of the pit / Will be taken in the snare; / For I will bring upon her, upon Moab, / The year of their punishment, declares Jehovah. |
| Jer. 48:45 |
In the shadow of Heshbon / Those who flee stand without strength; / For fire has gone forth from Heshbon / And a flame from the midst of Sihon; / And it has consumed the corner of Moab / And the top of the head of the sons of tumult. |
| Jer. 48:46 |
Woe to you, O Moab! / The people of Chemosh have perished, / For your sons have been taken captive, / And your daughters [have gone] into captivity. |
| Jer. 48:47 |
But I will turn again the captivity of Moab / In the last days, declares Jehovah. / Thus far is the judgment of Moab. |