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Kiriathaim will be put to shame; it will be captured. Its stronghold will be put to shame and torn down.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>People will no longer praise Moab. The people in Heshbon will plan Moab's destruction. "Let's destroy that nation!" You will be silenced, city of Madmen. Death will come after you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>People will cry out from Horonaim, "Looting and great destruction!"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Moab will be broken. Its little ones will cry out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>People go up the pass of Luhith, crying bitterly as they go. On the road down to Horonaim they have heard the distressful cry of destruction.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>"Run away! Run for your lives! Run like a wild donkey in the desert."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Since you trust the things you do and your treasures, you will be captured. Chemosh will go into captivity with all its priests and officials.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The destroyer will come to every city, and no city will escape. The valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be laid waste as the LORD has threatened.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Put salt on Moab. It will be destroyed. Its cities will become deserted ruins.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Cursed are those who neglect doing the LORD's work. Cursed are those who keep their swords from killing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>"Moab has lived securely ever since it was young. Its people are like wine left to settle in a jar. They aren't poured from one jar to another. They haven't gone into captivity. That is why its flavor has remained the same, and its aroma hasn't changed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>That is why the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will send people to pour Moab out of its jars and to smash its pitchers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh as the nation of Israel was ashamed when it trusted Bethel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"How can you say, 'We are soldiers and warriors'?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The enemy will attack Moab and destroy its cities. Its finest young men will be slaughtered," declares the king, whose name is the LORD of Armies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>"Moab's destruction is coming near; disaster is coming quickly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Mourn over it, all of its neighbors and everyone who knows its fame. Say, 'Look at the strong staff, the beautiful rod, that is broken!'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>"People of Dibon, come down from your place of honor and sit on the dry ground. The destroyers of Moab will attack you. They will destroy your fortresses.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Stand by the road in Aroer, and watch. Ask those who are fleeing and those who are escaping what is happening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They will answer, 'Moab is disgraced; it is defeated. Shout loudly, and cry. Tell the news in Arnon that Moab is destroyed.'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"Judgment has come to all the cities on the plain: to Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Dibon, Nebo, Beth Diblathaim, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, Beth Meon, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Kerioth, Bozrah, and on all the cities of Moab, far and near. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"Moab's horn is cut off, and its arm is broken," declares the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>"Get the people of Moab drunk; they have spoken against the LORD. They will wallow in their own vomit, and people will laugh at them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>People of Moab, didn't you laugh at the people of Israel? Were they caught among thieves? Whenever you talk about them you shake your heads in contempt.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>People of Moab, abandon your cities. Live among the cliffs. Be like doves that make their nests at the entrance of a cave.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>"We have heard about the arrogance of Moab's people. They are very arrogant. They are very arrogant, conceited, and boastful.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I know how arrogant they are," declares the LORD, "but it isn't right. They brag and don't do what they say.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>That is why I will weep for Moab and cry for all of Moab. I will moan for the people of Kir Hareseth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>I will cry for you as Jazer cries. I will cry for you, grapevines of Sibmah. Your branches [once] spread as far as the sea, and they reached as far as the sea of Jazer. The destroyer will destroy your ripened fruits and your grapes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Joy and gladness have disappeared from the orchards and fields of Moab. I will stop the wine flowing from the winepresses. No one will stomp on grapes with shouts of joy. There will be shouts, but not shouts of joy.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>"The cry will be heard from Heshbon to Elealeh and Jahaz. It will be heard from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah. Even the streams of Nimrim will dry up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I will stop those in Moab who come to worship sites, those who bring offerings to their gods," declares the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>"That is why I moan for Moab like a flute. I sound like a flute for the people of Kir Hareseth. The wealth they gained has disappeared. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>"Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off. There are gashes on every hand and sackcloth on every waist. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>People in Moab will mourn on every rooftop and in every street. There will be mourning everywhere, because I will break Moab like a jar that no one wants," declares the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>"They will cry, 'Look how Moab is defeated! Moab turns away in shame!' Moab has become something ridiculed and something held in contempt by everyone around it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>"This is what the LORD says: The enemy will swoop down like eagles and spread their wings over Moab.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>The cities will be taken, and the fortified places will be captured. On that day Moab's soldiers will be like women in childbirth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Moab will be destroyed as a nation, because it spoke against the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Disasters, pits, and traps are in store for those who live in Moab," declares the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>"Whoever flees from a disaster will fall into a pit. Whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap. I will bring a year of punishment to Moab," declares the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>"Those who flee will stand exhausted in the shadow of Heshbon. A fire will come out of Heshbon and a flame from Sihon. It will burn the foreheads of the people of Moab and the skulls of those noisy people.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>How horrible it will be for you, Moab. You people of Chemosh will die. Your sons will be taken away into exile, and your daughters will be taken away into captivity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>But I will restore Moab in the last days," declares the LORD. The judgment against Moab ends here.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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